Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Volume 96 , Pages S71-S73 , April 2002

A kinetoplast DNA minicircle probe (B18) specific for the Leishmania subgenus Viannia

  • L.J. Gibson

      Affiliations

    • Imperial College School of Medicine, Charing Cross Hospital, London, UK
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  • S.H.E. McCann

      Affiliations

    • Molteno Laboratories, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
    • Present address and address for correspondence: S. H. E. McCann, Wellcome Trust Centre for Molecular Mechanisms in Disease, Wellcome/MRC Building, CIMR, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 2XY, UK.
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  • S. Brewster

      Affiliations

    • Molteno Laboratories, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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  • D.C. Barker

      Affiliations

    • Molteno Laboratories, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

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Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
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