Identification of Six New World Leishmania species through the implementation of a High-Resolution Melting (HRM) genotyping assay

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Hernández, Carolina ^a,b   Alvarez, Catalina ^c   González, Camila ^c   Ayala, Martha Stella ^a   León, Cielo Maritza ^b   Ramírez, Juan David ^b  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DEL ROSARIO   (Colombia)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Genotyping; High resolution melting; Leishmania; Real Time PCR

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 1; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PROTOZOAL DNA;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COLOMBIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; GENOTYPE; HIGH RESOLUTION MELTING ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA AMAZONENSIS; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA GUYANENSIS; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; LEISHMANIA PANAMENSIS; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MULTILOCUS ENZYME ELECTROPHORESIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE ISOLATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RELIABILITY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; EVALUATION STUDY; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEISHMANIASIS; MAMMAL; PARASITOLOGY; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; MAMMALS; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84964696967     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13071-014-0501-y     Document Type: Article

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