Leishmania isoenzyme polymorphisms in Ecuador: Relationships with geographic distribution and clinical presentation

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Calvopina, Manuel ^a   Armijos, Rodrigo X ^b   Marco, Jorge D ^a   Uezato, Hiroshi ^c   Kato, Hirotomo ^d   Gomez, Eduardo A ^e   Korenaga, Masataka ^a   Barroso, Paola A ^a   Mimori, Tatsuyuki ^f   Cooper, Philip J ^g,h   Nonaka, Shigeo ^c   Hashiguchi, Yoshihisa ^a  

^a KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^d YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE SANTIAGO DE GUAYAQUIL   (Ecuador)

^f KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g Hospital Pedro Vicente Maldonado   (Ecuador)

^h ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE ISOMERASE; ISOENZYME; MALATE DEHYDROGENASE; MALATE DEHYDROGENASE (DECARBOXYLATING); MANNOSE PHOSPHATE ISOMERASE; NUCLEOSIDASE; PHOSPHOGLUCOMUTASE; PHOSPHOGLUCONATE DEHYDROGENASE; PYRUVATE KINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECUADOR; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; LEISHMANIA PANAMENSIS; MULTILOCUS ENZYME ELECTROPHORESIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ECUADOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOENZYMES; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

EID: 33749160492     PISSN: 14712334     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-6-139     Document Type: Article

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