Quick detection of Leishmania in peripheral blood by flow cytometry. Is prestorage leucodepletion necessary for leishmaniasis prevention in endemic areas?

Transfusion Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 59-62

  Kyriakou, Despina S ^a,d   Alexandrakis, M G ^b   Passam, F H ^b   Kourelis, T V ^a   Foundouli, P ^c   Matalliotakis, E ^c   Maniatis, A N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF LARISSA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

^c General Hospital of Agios Nikolaos   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Blood transfusion; Leishmaniasis

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GREECE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KINETOPLAST; LEISHMANIASIS; LEUKOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BLOOD DONORS; CELL SEPARATION; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GREECE; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0242668309     PISSN: 09587578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3148.2003.00420.x     Document Type: Article

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