The PCR-based detection of Leishmania major infections in Meriones libycus (Rodentia: Muridae) from southern Iran

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 97, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 811-816

  Moemenbellah Fard, M D ^a   Kalantari, M ^b   Rassi, Y ^c   Javadian, E ^c  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INCIDENCE; IRAN; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; RAT; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; SMEAR; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; FEMALE; GERBILLINAE; IRAN; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RODENT DISEASES; ZOONOSES;

ANIMALIA; IRANIA; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MERIONES; MERIONES LIBYCUS; MURIDAE; PROTOZOA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0346731034     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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