Simultaneous detection of the feline lungworms Troglostrongylus brevior and Aelurostrongylus abstrusus by a newly developed duplex-PCR

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 199, Issue 3-4, 2014, Pages 172-178

  Annoscia, Giada ^a   Latrofa, Maria Stefania ^a   Campbell, Bronwyn Evelyn ^a   Giannelli, Alessio ^a   Ramos, Rafael Antonio Nascimento ^a   Dantas Torres, Filipe ^a,b   Brianti, Emanuele ^c   Otranto, Domenico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aelurostrongylus abstrusus; Duplex PCR; Feline lungworms; ITS 2; Phylogeny; Troglostrongylus brevior

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 2;

AELUROSTRONGYLUS ABSTRUSUS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DUPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; LARVAL STAGE; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STRONGYLIDA; TROGLOSTRONGYLUS BREVIOR; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANGIOSTRONGYLIDAE; CRENOSOMATIDAE; FELIDAE; METASTRONGYLOIDEA; STRONGYLIDA; TROGLOSTRONGYLUS;

AELUROSTRONGYLUS ABSTRUSUS; DUPLEX-PCR; FELINE LUNGWORMS; ITS-2; PHYLOGENY; TROGLOSTRONGYLUS BREVIOR;

ANIMALS; CAT DISEASES; CATS; COINFECTION; DNA, HELMINTH; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FECES; LARVA; METASTRONGYLOIDEA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STRONGYLIDA INFECTIONS;

EID: 84890567042     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: 18732550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2013.10.015     Document Type: Article

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