PCR detection of specific Leishmania-DNA in patients with periodontal disease

Pathologica

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 28-31

  Premoli De Percoco, G ^a   Gonzalez, N ^a   Anez N ^a   Guevara, P ^b   Ramirez, J L ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Venezuela)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

American tegumentary leishmaniasis; Inflammatory process; Leishmania braziliensis; Periodontal disease; Polymerase chain reaction (PCR)

Indexed keywords

ANTILEISHMANIAL AGENT; DNA; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENT; MEGLUMINE; MEGLUMINE ANTIMONIATE; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUND; PROTOZOAL DNA;

ARTICLE; INFLAMMATION; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; PERIODONTAL DISEASE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; ADULT; ANIMAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GENETICS; GINGIVA; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONOCYTE; PARASITOLOGY; PERIODONTITIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RADIOGRAPHY; VENEZUELA;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; GINGIVA; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MALE; MEGLUMINE; MIDDLE AGED; MONOCYTES; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; PERIODONTITIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VENEZUELA;

EID: 0036482402     PISSN: 00312983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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