American tegumentary leishmaniasis: direct species identification of Leishmania in non-invasive clinical samples

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 368-371

  Garcia, Ana Lineth ^a,b   Parrado, Rudy ^b   De Doncker, Simonne ^a   Bermudez, Hernán ^b   Dujardin, Jean Claude ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b Centro Universitario de Medicina Tropical   (Bolivia)

Author keywords

Bolivia; Cutaneous leishmaniasis; Diagnosis; Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis; Leishmania (Viannia) lainsoni; PCR

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70;

ARTICLE; BOLIVIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEISHMANIA; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

ANIMALS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; HSP70 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA LAINSONI;

EID: 33846677066     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2006.06.009     Document Type: Article

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