Detection of Angiostrongylus cantonensis in the blood and peripheral tissues of wild hawaiian rats (Rattus rattus) by a quantitative PCR (qPCR) assay

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Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Jarvi, Susan I ^a   Pitt, William C ^b,c   Farias, Margaret E ^a   Shiels, Laura ^a,b   Severino, Michael G ^a   Howe, Kathleen M ^a   Jacquier, Steven H ^a   Shiels, Aaron B ^b   Amano, Karis K ^a   Luiz, Blaine C ^a   Maher, Daisy E ^a   Allison, Maureen L ^a   Holtquist, Zachariah C ^a   Scheibelhut, Neil T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT HILO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ADULT; ANGIOSTRONGYLIASIS; ANGIOSTRONGYLUS CANTONENSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE; LARVAL STAGE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE ISOLATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROGENY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; RATTUS RATTUS; SPLEEN WEIGHT; TAIL; WILD ANIMAL; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; GENETICS; HEART; LUNG; PARASITEMIA; PARASITOLOGY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPLEEN; STRONGYLE INFECTION; VETERINARY;

ANGIOSTRONGYLUS CANTONENSIS; GASTROPODA; RATTUS; RATTUS RATTUS;

ANGIOSTRONGYLUS CANTONENSIS; ANIMAL DISEASES; ANIMALS; FEMALE; HEART; LUNG; MALE; PARASITEMIA; RATS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPLEEN; STRONGYLIDA INFECTIONS;

EID: 84929379138     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0123064     Document Type: Article

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