Short report: Concomitant early mucosal and cutaneous leishmaniasis in Brazil

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 267-269

  Boaventura, Viviane S ^b   Cafe, Virginia ^b   Costa, Jackson ^b   Oliveira, Fabiano ^b   Bafica, Andre ^b   Rosato, Andrea ^b   De Freitas, Luiz A R ^b   Brodskyn, Claudia ^b   Barral Netto, Manoel ^b   Barral, Aldina ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b Centro de Integração de Dados e Conhecimentos Para Saúde   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; ENT EXAMINATION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARASITE ISOLATION; SEROLOGY; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; ANIMAL; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENDOSCOPY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NOSE MUCOSA; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN TEST;

PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BRAZIL; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; LEISHMANIASIS, MUCOCUTANEOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASAL MUCOSA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN TESTS;

EID: 33748745313     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2006.75.267     Document Type: Article

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