Leishmaniasis in Israel and the Palestinian Authority

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 328-332

  Jaffe, Charles L ^a   Baneth, Gad ^b   Abdeen, Ziad A ^c   Schlein, Yosef ^a   Warburg, Alon ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c AL QUDS UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL FEATURE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; LEISHMANIASIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PHLEBOTOMUS; PROMASTIGOTE; REVIEW; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; URBAN AREA; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DISEASE VECTORS; DOGS; HUMANS; ISRAEL; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; MIDDLE EAST;

LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 2942552463     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2004.05.001     Document Type: Review

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