An outbreak of cutaneous leishmaniasis in an Afghan refugee settlement in north-west Pakistan

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 133-136

  Rowland, Mark ^a,b   Munir, Arif ^c   Durrani, Naeem ^a   Noyes, Harry ^d   Reyburn, Hugh ^a  

^a Department of Research and Development   (Netherlands)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Pakistan)

^d LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Afghanistan; Cutaneous leishmaniasis; Epidemiology; Leishmania tropica; Pakistan; Phlebotomus sergenti; Refugees

Indexed keywords

AFGHANISTAN; AMASTIGOTE; ARTICLE; HUMAN; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROSCOPY; PAKISTAN; PARASITE CULTIVATION; PHLEBOTOMUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REFUGEE; SCAR; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS;

LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; PHLEBOTOMUS SERGENTI; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0032927093     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(99)90285-7     Document Type: Article

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