Short report: Absence of Lishmania in Gianan bats

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 318-321

  Rotureau, Brice ^a   Catzeflis, François ^b   Carme, Bernard ^a  

^a Equipe EA 3593   (French Guiana)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LEISHMANIA; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; ANIMAL; BAT; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FRENCH GUIANA; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY;

CHIROPTERA; MAMMALIA; PHLEBOTOMINAE; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

PRIMER DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA;

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FRENCH GUIANA; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 33645819591     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2006.74.318     Document Type: Article

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