Article
Development and application of an ethically and epidemiologically advantageous assay for the multi-locus microsatellite analysis of Schistosoma mansoni.
Parasitology - 1 Apr 2007
Gower C M, Shrivastava J, Lamberton P H L, Rollinson D, Webster B L, Emery A, Kabatereine N B, Webster J P
Abstract excerpt
Non-availability of adult worms from living hosts remains a key problem in population genetic studies of schistosomes. Indirect sampling involving passage through laboratory animals presents significant ethical and practical drawbacks, and may result in sampling biases such as bottlenecking processes and/or host-induced selection pressures. The novel techniques reported here for sampling, storage and multi-locus...
Topics
- Alleles
- Animals
- Child
- Helminth Proteins
- Humans
- Larva
- Microsatellite Repeats
- Phylogeny
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Schistosoma mansoni
- Schistosomiasis mansoni
