Detection and species identification of Old World Leishmania in clinical samples using a PCR-based method

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 46-53

  Spanakos, Gregory ^a   Piperaki, Evangelia Theophano ^b   Menounos, Panagiotis G ^c   Tegos, Nicholas ^a   Flemetakis, Alexander ^d   Vakalis, Nicholas C ^a  

^a NATIONAL SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^c Nursing Military Academy   (Greece)

^d ANDREAS SYGROS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Greece; Internal transcribed spacer 1; Leishmania; Molecular diagnostic techniques; PCR

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 1; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; BONE MARROW; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GREECE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SAMPLE; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

ANIMALS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; GREECE; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIA TROPICA;

EID: 36549059590     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2007.05.019     Document Type: Article

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