Occurrence of Leishmania infantum cutaneous leishmaniasis in central Tunisia

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 521-526

  BenSaid, Moncef ^a   Guerbouj, Souheila ^b   Saghrouni, Fatma ^a   Fathallah Mili, Akila ^a   Guizani, Ikram ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUSSE   (Tunisia)

^b PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF TUNIS   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Cutaneous leishmaniasis; DNA identification; gp63 PCR RFLP; kDNA; Leishmania infantum; Tunisia

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; GLYCOPROTEIN; GLYCOPROTEIN GP63; PROTOZOAL DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; NONHUMAN; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TUNISIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TUNISIA;

LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA TROPICA;

EID: 33645849198     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2005.08.012     Document Type: Article

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