A new focus of cutaneous leishmaniasis due to Leishmania amazonensis in a Sub Andean region of Bolivia

Acta Tropica

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 97-106

  Martinez E ^a   Le Pont, F ^b   Torrez, M ^a   Telleria J ^a   Vargas, F ^a   Munoz M ^a   De Doncker, S ^c   Dujardin, J C ^c   Dujardin, J P ^b  

^a Instituto Boliviano de Biologia de Altura   (Bolivia)

^b Institut de recherche pour le developpement Bolivia   (Bolivia)

^c INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bolivia; Cutaneous leishmaniasis; L. amazonensis; Leishmania mexicana complex; Multilocus enzyme electrophoresis; Orthogonal field alternated gel electrophoresis

Indexed keywords

DISEASE PREVALENCE; LEISHMANIASIS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BOLIVIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; HAMSTER; HUMAN; KARYOTYPE; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BOLIVIA; CRICETINAE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; HUMANS; ISOENZYMES; KARYOTYPING; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; SKIN; ULCER;

LEISHMANIA AMAZONENSIS; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; LEISHMANIA PIFANOI; LEISHMANIASIS MEXICANA;

EID: 0032531175     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0001-706X(98)00049-7     Document Type: Article

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