First detection of Leishmania major in peridomestic Phlebotomus papatasi from Isfahan province, Iran: Comparison of nested PCR of nuclear ITS ribosomal DNA and semi-nested PCR of minicircle kinetoplast DNA

Acta Tropica

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 75-83

  Parvizi, P ^a,b   Mauricio, I ^b   Aransay, A M ^a   Miles, M A ^b   Ready, P D ^a  

^a Nat Hist Mus Cromwell Rd L   (Turkey)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diagnostic nested PCR; Diagnostic semi nested PCR; Iranian sandflies; ITS ribosomal DNA; Leishmania major; Minicircle kinetoplast DNA; Phlebotomus papatasi

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; KINETOPLAST DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

LEISHMANIASIS;

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GERBIL; INFECTION RATE; INTERMEDIATE HOST; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE CULTIVATION; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PHLEBOTOMUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESERVOIR; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; DNA, KINETOPLAST; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FEMALE; GERBILLINAE; IRAN; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; PHLEBOTOMUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RURAL POPULATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ANIMALIA; GERBILLINAE; IRANIA; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; PHLEBOTOMINAE; PHLEBOTOMUS PAPATASI; RHOMBOMYS OPIMUS;

EID: 10044244921     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2004.09.007     Document Type: Article

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