Leishmania tropica in the black rat (Rattus rattus): Persistence and transmission from asymptomatic host to sand fly vector Phlebotomus sergenti

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 361-364

  Svobodová, Milena ^a   Votýpka, Jan ^a   Nicolas, Luc ^b   Volf, Petr ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

Cutaneous leishmaniasis; Epidemiology; Quantitative PCR; Rattus; Transmission

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA;

AMASTIGOTE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA DETERMINATION; EAR; HOST; INFECTION RATE; INOCULATION; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PHLEBOTOMUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TAIL; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

INSECTA; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; MAMMALIA; PHLEBOTOMINAE; PHLEBOTOMUS SERGENTI; RATTUS; RATTUS RATTUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037989667     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1286-4579(03)00046-7     Document Type: Article

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