Outbreak of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Northern Israel

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 188, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1065-1073

  Jacobson, Raymond L ^a   Eisenberger, Carol L ^a   Svobodova, Milena ^e   Baneth, Gad ^c   Sztern, Julia ^a   Carvalho, Jorge ^a   Nasereddin, Abedelmajeed ^a   El Fari, Mustafa ^d   Shalom, Uri ^b   Volf, Petr ^e   Votypka, Jan ^e   Dedet, Jean Pierre ^f   Pratlong, Francine ^f   Schonian, Gabriele ^c   Schnur, Lionel F ^a   Jaffe, Charles L ^a   Warburg, Alon ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b Israel Ministry of the Environmental Protection   (Israel)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^d CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^e CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^f Laboratoire de Parasitologie   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE CARRIER; ENZYME ELECTROPHORESIS; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; HYRAX; IMMUNOLOGICAL TECHNIQUE; ISRAEL; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; LEISHMANIASIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PHLEBOTOMUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ELECTROPHORESIS, STARCH GEL; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; HYRAXES; IMMUNODIFFUSION; ISOENZYMES; ISRAEL; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; PHLEBOTOMUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL;

EID: 0141752435     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/378204     Document Type: Article

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