Detection of Leishmania (Viannia) DNA in blood from patients with American cutaneous leishmaniasis

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 399-402

  Venazzi, E A S ^a   Roberto, A C B S ^a   Barbosa Tessmann, I P ^a   Zanzarini, P D ^a   Lonardoni, M V C ^a   Silveira, T G V ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF MARINGÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Blood; Cutaneous leishmaniasis; Leishmania braziliensis; PCR

Indexed keywords

DNA;

AMASTIGOTE; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; DNA DETERMINATION; HUMAN; LEISHMANIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS;

ANIMALS; BRAZIL; DNA, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; PARASITEMIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECURRENCE;

LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; VIANNIA;

EID: 33846575196     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2006.10.002     Document Type: Article

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