Direct identification of Leishmania species in biopsies from patients with American tegumentary leishmaniasis

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 80-87

  Victoir, Kathleen ^a   De Doncker, Simonne ^a   Cabrera, Leyda ^b   Alvarez, Eugenia ^b   Arevalo, Jorge ^b   Llanos Cuentas, Alejandro ^b   Le Ray, Dominique ^a   Dujardin, Jean Claude ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA TROPICAL ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT   (Peru)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis; Leishmania (Viannia) guyanensis; Leishmania (Viannia) peruviana; Leishmaniasis; Peru; Polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

KINETOPLAST DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PERU; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA GUYANENSIS; LEISHMANIA PERUVIANA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0038637208     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(03)90031-9     Document Type: Article

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