Rapid diagnosis and genotyping of Leishmania isolates from cutaneous and visceral leishmaniasis by microcapillary cultivation and polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism of miniexon region

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 209-214

  Serin, Mehmet S ^a   Daglioglu, Kenan ^b   Bagirova, Melahat ^b   Allahverdiyev, Adil ^b   Uzun, Soner ^b   Vural, Zeynep ^b   Kayar, Begum ^b   Tezcan, Seda ^a   Yetkin, Mesut ^b   Aslan, Gonul ^a   Emekdas, Gurol ^a   Koksal, Fatih ^b  

^a MERSIN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

L. infantum; L. tropica; Microcapillary culture; Miniexon; PCR; RFLP

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DNA DETERMINATION; EXON; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; MICROCIRCULATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

ANIMALS; CULTURE MEDIA; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; EXONS; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 27744567595     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2005.05.007     Document Type: Article

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