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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"reverse line blot"”.
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Blood Meal Analysis for the Detection and Identification of Host DNA in the Gut Contents of Ornithodoros coriaceus
… Polymerase chain reaction in combination with reverse line blot showed that the cytochrome b marker could accurately identify host DNA in ticks, fed experimentally on a known host blood, on day 175 post-feeding in 92.9% of ticks, in 40% of ticks on day 196, and only 26.7% of ticks at day 207. …
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Detection of Babesia species in domestic and wild Southern African felids by means of DNA probes
Feline babesiosis, first described in domestic cats in South Africa in 1937, is regarded to be of great importance in the coastal regions although isolated cases also occur on the eastern highlands of Mpumalanga Province. Babesia felis (described from domestic cats) and B. leo (described from …
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Human Papillomavirus Prevalence in Asymptomatic Men
… sites and semen was conducted by PCR and reverse line blot genotyping for 37 HPV types. Serum antibodies for HPV-16 were detected by ELISA. Self-administered demographic, health, and sexual history/behavior questionnaires were collected. HPV prevalence and type distributions by anatomic …
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Bacterial colonization of the nasopharynx in paediatric patients with acute respiratory viral symptoms
… This study helps establish a colonization baseline, which may assist in detecting changes in colonization attributable to universal vaccination. The study also sought correlates between bacterial nasopharyngeal colonization, and viral respiratory infection. It has long been thought that viral …
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Tick-borne haemoparasite occurrence and Anaplasma bovis strain diversity in eastern rock sengis (Elephantulus myurus)
… Babesia, Ehrlichia and Anaplasma spp. using the Reverse Line Blot (RLB) hybridization assay, and (ii) to determine the taxonomic position of the A. bovis strain present in rock sengis by PCRscreening of additional rock sengi samples using 16S rRNA and GroEL assays, optimised for specific …
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Tick-borne haemoparasite prevalence and Theileria parva strain diversity in African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) from northern Botswana and Gonarezhou National Park, Zimbabwe
… either as mixed or single infections using the reverse line blot (RLB) hybridization assay from buffalo blood samples in the Chobe National Park (CNP) and Okavango Delta (OD), Botswana and in the Gonarezhou National Park (GNP), Zimbabwe. Also, a quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR) assay was used …