Avian haemosporidian parasites (Haemosporida): A comparative analysis of different polymerase chain reaction assays in detection of mixed infections

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 163, Issue , 2016, Pages 31-37

  Bernotiene, Rasa ^a   Palinauskas, Vaidas ^a   Iezhova, Tatjana ^a   Murauskaite, Dovile ^a   Valkiunas, Gediminas ^a  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Avian malaria; Detectability; Haemoproteus; Mixed infection; Plasmodium; Polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; PROTOZOAL DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APICOPLAST; ARTICLE; AVIAN MALARIA; COI GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYT B GENE; DNA SEQUENCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HAEMOPROTEUS; HAEMOPROTEUS BELOPOLSKYI; HAEMOPROTEUS LANII; HAEMOPROTEUS MINUTUS; HAEMOPROTEUS MOTACILLAE; HAEMOPROTEUS PALLIDUS; HAEMOPROTEUS PARABELOPOLSKYI; HAEMOPROTEUS TARTAKOVSKYI; HAEMOSPORIDA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MICROSCOPY; MIXED INFECTION; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE EXAMINATION; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM ASHFORDI; PLASMODIUM CIRCUMFLEXUM; PLASMODIUM RELICTUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WILD ANIMAL; ANIMAL; BIRD; BIRD DISEASES; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALARIA, AVIAN; PARASITOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; HAEMOSPORIDA; MALARIA, AVIAN; PLASMODIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84957544760     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2016.01.009     Document Type: Article

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