Leishmania spp infection in injecting drug users [6]

Lancet

Volumn 360, Issue 9337, 2002, Pages 950-951

  Pineda, Juan A ^a   Martin Sanchez J ^b   Macias J ^b   Morillas, F ^b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE VALME   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY TITER; DEVICE INFECTION; DRUG USE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; INFECTION RATE; INJECTION; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEROLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; SKIN MANIFESTATION; SPAIN; SUBSPECIES; SYMPTOM; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

EID: 0037152081     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(02)11056-7     Document Type: Letter

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