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Parasite
Volume 8, june 2001
Xth International Conference on Trichinellosis (20-24 august 2000)
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| Page(s) | S229 - S231 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/parasite/200108s2229 | |
| Published online | 17 September 2014 | |
Xth ICT, August 2000
Early detection of Trichinella spiralis infection by the polymerase chain reaction in blood samples of experimentally infected mice
Laboratorio de Investigación en Parasitología, Hospital Infantil de México - Federico Gómez », Dr. Márquez No. 162, 06720, México, D. F. Tel.: 52 5588 4019 - Fax : 52 5761 0303 E-mail : enedina@servidor.unam.mx
Up to now, there is no useful method to diagnose trichinellosis at the early stages of infection. The aim of the present investigation was to know if the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), could detect DNA of migratory larvae in mice experimentally infected with T. spiralis. Thirty- three Balb/c female mice 4.6 weeks old, were infected with 300 larvae of T. spiralis /mouse. Blood samples of these animals were positive for T. spiralis at 3th and 17t h postinfection days. The control group was negative. PCR could detect from one to 200 larvae. Our results showed that it was possible to make early diagnosis of trichinellosis in blood of mice infected with T. spiralis.
Key words: T. spiralis / trichinellosis / PCR / DNA
© PRINCEPS Editions, Paris, 2001, transferred to Société Française de Parasitologie
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