Evidence for a new species of Leishmania associated with a focal disease outbreak in Ghana

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 323-327

  Villinski, Jeffrey T ^a   Klena, John D ^a   Abbassy, Magda ^a   Hoel, David F ^a   Puplampu, Naiki ^c   Mechta, Sarah ^c   Boakye, Daniel ^c   Raczniak, Gregory ^b,c  

^a US Naval Medical Research Unit No 3 Egypt   (Egypt)

^b US Naval Medical Research Unit No 3   (Ghana)

^c University of Ghana   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Leishmania; Leishmaniasis; Parasite; Real time PCR

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 1; RNA;

ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; LEISHMANIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS;

ANIMALS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, INTERGENIC; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GHANA; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 39349108361     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2007.09.013     Document Type: Article

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