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A pond-side test for Guinea worm: Development of a loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assay for detection of Dracunculus medinensis

Guinea worm Dracunculus medinensis causes debilitating disease in people and is subject to an ongoing global eradication programme. Research and controls are constrained by a lack of diagnostic tools. We developed a specific and sensitive LAMP method for detecting D. medinensis larval DNA in copepod...

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Autores principales: Boonham, Neil, Tomlinson, Jenny, Ostoja-Starzewska, Sioban, McDonald, Robbie A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Academic Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7526612/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32755552
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.exppara.2020.107960