Leishmaniasis in ancient Egypt and Upper Nubia [10]

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1616-1617

  Zink, Albert R ^a,b   Spigelman, Mark ^c,d   Schraut, Bettina ^a   Greenblatt, Charles L ^d   Nerlich, Andreas G ^a   Donoghue, Helen D ^c  

^a KLINIKUM BOGENHAUSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA;

BONE TISSUE; DNA SEQUENCE; EGYPT; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HISTORY; HUMAN; LEISHMANIASIS; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PALEOPATHOLOGY; PARASITE INCIDENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SUDAN;

EID: 33750006103     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1210.060169     Document Type: Letter

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