Leishmania chagasi: Genotypically similar parasites from Honduras cause both visceral and cutaneous leishmaniasis in humans

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 264-273

  Noyes, Harry ^a   Chance, Michael ^a   Ponce, Carlos ^b   Ponce, Elisa ^b   Maingon, Rhaiza ^c  

^a LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b Laboratorio Central   (Honduras)

^c KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HONDURAS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; LEISHMANIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

ANIMALIA; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI CHAGASI; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; LEISHMANIASIS MEXICANA; PHLEBOTOMINAE;

EID: 0031106425     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1996.4133     Document Type: Article

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