Species-specific detection of Leishmania in sandflies using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 35-37

  Adini, Irit ^a   Jacobson, Raymond L ^a   Kasap, Mulkiye ^b   Schlein, Yosef ^a   Jaffe, Charles L ^a,c  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Detection; Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay; Infection; Israel; Leishmania major; Leishmaniasis; Phlebotomus papatasi

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIASIS; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PSYCHODIDAE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

LEISHMANIA MAJOR; PHLEBOTOMINAE; PHLEBOTOMUS PAPATASI; PROTOZOA; PSYCHODIDAE;

EID: 0031883808     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(98)90946-4     Document Type: Article

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