Leishmania infantum is clonal in AIDS patients too: Epidemiological implications

AIDS

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 569-573

  Jiménez, Maribel ^a   Alvar, Jorge ^a   Tibayrenc, Michel ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Conal propagation; Isoenzyme; Linkage disequilibrium; Molecular epidemiology; Opportunistic parasite; Population genetics; Visceral leishmaniasis

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; ELECTROPHORESIS; EVOLUTION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENOTYPE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPAIN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; LINKAGE (GENETICS); POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SPAIN;

EID: 0030973833     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002030-199705000-00003     Document Type: Article

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