Leishmania in discarded syringes from intravenous drug users

Lancet

Volumn 359, Issue 9312, 2002, Pages 1124-1125

  Cruz, I ^a   Morales, M A ^a   Noguer, I ^b   Rodriguez A ^c   Alvar, J ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^b Ministero de Sanidad Y Consumo   (Spain)

^c Médicos del Mundo España   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG USE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; LEISHMANIA; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SPAIN; SYRINGE;

EID: 0037197035     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(02)08160-6     Document Type: Article

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