Characterization of Leishmania infection in rodents from endemic areas of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 4-5, 2004, Pages 591-599

  Mohebali, M ^a   Javadian, E ^a   Yaghoobi Ershadi, M R ^a   Akhavan, A A ^a   Hajjaran, H ^a   Abaei, M R ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GENETIC PROCEDURES; HAMSTER; IRAN; ISOENZYME ANALYSIS; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIA TURANICA; LEISHMANIASIS; LIVER; MERIONES HURRIANAE; MERIONES LIBYCUS; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PROMASTIGOTE; RHOMBOMYS OPIMUS; RODENT; RODENT DISEASE; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; SMEAR; SPLEEN; TATERA INDICA; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

ANIMALS; DISEASE VECTORS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ENDEMIC DISEASES; GERBILLINAE; HUMANS; IRAN; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; LIVER; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; RODENT DISEASES; SPLEEN; ZOONOSES;

EID: 28444476613     PISSN: 10203397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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