Visceral leishmaniasis in the Sudan: Comparative parasitological methods of diagnosis

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 1988, Pages 66-68

  Siddig, Mohammed ^a   Ghalib, Hashim ^b   Shillington, David C ^c   Petersen, Eskild A ^c  

^a University ofKhartoum   (Sudan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MARROW BIOPSY; DIAGNOSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIASIS; METHODOLOGY; PROTOZOON;

ANIMAL; BONE MARROW; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; LYMPH NODES; SPLEEN; SUCTION; SUDAN;

EID: 0023838309     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: 18783503     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0035-9203(88)90265-9     Document Type: Article

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