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SUBMITTER: Tiwary P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3533248 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tiwary Puja P Kumar Dinesh D Rai Madhukar M Sundar Shyam S
Journal of medical entomology 20121101 6
PCR-Restriction fragment length polymorphism is a time saving and accurate technique to differentiate closely related organisms. In the regions endemic for visceral leishmaniasis in India, various species of morphological similar sand fly exist but only female Phlebotomus argentipes is the vector for visceral leishmaniasis. In the current study primers were designed targeting the 18S rRNA encoding gene that showed amplification in all the major sand fly species found in India. The amplified frag ...[more]