Epidemiological monitoring of American tegumentary leishmaniasis: molecular characterization of a peridomestic transmission cycle in the Amazonian lowlands of Bolivia

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 101, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1208-1213

  Garcia, Ana Lineth ^a,b   Tellez, Tatiana ^a   Parrado, Rudy ^a   Rojas, Ernesto ^a   Bermudez, Hernan ^a   Dujardin, Jean Claude ^b  

^a Centro Universitario de Medicina Tropical   (Bolivia)

^b INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bolivia; Epidemiology; Leishmania; Lutzomyia; Molecular diagnostic techniques; PCR

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE;

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; BOLIVIA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FLY; HUMAN; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MONITORING; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSYCHODIDAE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BOLIVIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA GUYANENSIS; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PSYCHODIDAE;

PHLEBOTOMINAE;

EID: 35648997850     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2007.09.002     Document Type: Article

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