Leishmania RNA viruses in Leishmania of the Viannia subgenus

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 425-429

  Salinas, Graciela ^a   Zamora, Miguel ^b   Stuart, Kenneth ^b   Saravia, Nancy ^a  

^a CENTRO INTERNACIONAL DE ENTRENAMIENTO E INVESTIGACIONES MÉDICAS CIDEIM   (Colombia)

^b SEATTLE BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ARTICLE; COLOMBIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE ISOLATION; RNA VIRUS; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS DETECTION;

EID: 0029866309     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.1996.54.425     Document Type: Article

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