Indian mucosal leishmaniasis due to Leishmania donovani infection [16]

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 358, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 313-315

  Sethuraman, Gomathy ^a   Sharma, Vinod K ^a   Salotra, Poonam ^b  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b SAFDARJUNG HOSPITAL CAMPUS   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; INDIA; INDIAN; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LETTER; LOWER LIP; MALE; MOUTH; PALATE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS;

EID: 38349061680     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc072391     Document Type: Letter

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