Discrimination between Onchocerca volvulus and O. ochengi filarial larvae in Simulium damnosum (s.l.) and their distribution throughout central Ghana using a versatile high-resolution speciation assay

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 1-8

  Doyle, Stephen R ^a,e   Armoo, Samuel ^a,b   Renz, Alfons ^c   Taylor, Mark J ^d   Osei Atweneboana, Mike Yaw ^b   Grant, Warwick N ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIR WATER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Ghana)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^e WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ghana; High resolution melt analysis (HRM); Onchocerca ochengi; Onchocerca volvulus; Onchocerciasis; Restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP); Speciation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GHANA; LARVA; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCA; ONCHOCERCA OCHENGI; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; REVIEW; RIVER BASIN; SIMULIUM DAMNOSUM; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; ANIMAL; BOVINE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; PARASITOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SIMULIIDAE; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUES; GHANA; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; HUMANS; LARVA; ONCHOCERCA; PARASITOLOGY; SIMULIIDAE;

EID: 84991252337     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13071-016-1832-7     Document Type: Review

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