Short report: Use of kDNA-based polymerase chain reaction as a sensitive and differentially diagnostic method of American Tegumentary Leishmaniasis in disease-endemic areas of northern Argentina

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 636-639

  Barrio, Alejandra ^a,b   Mora, María C ^b   Ramos, Federico ^b   Moreno, Sonia ^c   Samson, Ruth ^c   Basombrío, Miguel A ^b  

^a Universidad Nacional de Salta ^*  (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SALTA   (Argentina)

^c Hospital Señor del Milagro   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; LEISHMANIN SKIN TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SENSIBILITY; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHEMISTRY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS;

KINETOPLAST DNA; LEISHMANIN; PARASITE ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; ARGENTINA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DNA, KINETOPLAST; ENDEMIC DISEASES; HUMANS; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 38449088923     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2007.77.636     Document Type: Article

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