New clinicoepidemiologic profile of cutaneous leishmaniasis, Morocco

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1358-1360

  Rhajaoui, Mohamed ^a   Nasereddin, Abedelmajeed ^b   Fellah, Hajiba ^a   Azmi, Kifaya ^b   Amarir, Fatima ^a   Al Jawabreh, Amer ^b   Ereqat, Suheir ^b   Planer, Joseph ^c   Abdeen, Ziad ^b  

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL D HYGIÈNE   (Morocco)

^b AL QUDS UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

^c MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOROCCO; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX RATIO; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; TRAVEL; ANIMAL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOROCCO;

EID: 34848834144     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1309.060946     Document Type: Article

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