Visceral leishmaniasis in India: Promises and pitfalls of a PCR-based blood test

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 96, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2002, Pages S179-

  Adhya, Samit ^a   Hassan, Md Quamarul ^a   Mukherjee, Sandeep ^a   Manna, Partha Pratim ^a   Basu, Anirban ^a   Sen, Sandeep ^b   Bandyopadhyay, Santu ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL BIOLOGY   (India)

^b Sen Medical Research Centre   (India)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; India; Leishmania donovani; Leishmaniasis; Polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOAL RNA;

ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CELL TYPE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INDIA; LEISHMANIA; MALARIA; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TUBERCULOSIS; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS; ANIMAL; BLOOD; EVALUATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; METHODOLOGY; PARASITEMIA; PARASITOLOGY; PSYCHODIDAE;

LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; NASO HEXACANTHUS;

ANIMALS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; PARASITEMIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSYCHODIDAE; RNA, PROTOZOAN;

EID: 17144436229     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0035-9203(02)90073-8     Document Type: Article

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