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Highly repeated short DNA sequences in the genome of Schistosoma mansoni recognized by a species-specific probe
J Hamburger1, T Turetski, I Kapeller
1Kuvin Centre for the Study of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Department of Parasitology, Hebrew University, Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel.
Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology
|January 1, 1991
Abstract:
A cloned 0.64-kb DNA sequence of Schistosoma mansoni contains 121-bp tandem repeats and comprises at least 12% of the schistosomal genome of both sexes. It exhibits a high degree of species specificity upon hybridization with Schistosoma haematobium and Schistosoma magrebowiei DNA, and could detect with high sensitivity schistosomal DNA sequences in infected snails.