Occurrence of Leishmania infantum parasitemia in asymptomatic blood donors living in an area of endemicity in southern France

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1953-1957

  Le Fichoux, Yves ^a   Quaranta, Jean François ^a,b   Aufeuvre, Jean Pierre ^c   Lelievre, Alain ^a   Marty, Pierre ^a   Suffia, Isabelle ^a   Rousseau, Deborah ^a   Kubar, Joanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^b PASTEUR HOSPITAL   (France)

^c Faculté de Médecine ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FRANCE; HUMAN; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0032929880     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.37.6.1953-1957.1999     Document Type: Article

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