Two Leishmania species circulating in the Kaleybar focus of infantile visceral leishmaniasis, northwest Iran: implications for deltamethrin dog collar intervention

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 102, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 891-897

  Parvizi, P ^a,b   Mazloumi Gavgani, A S ^c   Davies, C R ^d   Courtenay, O ^e   Ready, P D ^b  

^a PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF IRAN   (Iran)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Iran; ITS rDNA; Leishmania infantum; Leishmania tropica; PCR; Phlebotomus perfiliewi transcaucasicus; Visceral leishmaniasis

Indexed keywords

DELTAMETHRIN; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; RIBOSOME DNA; SCALIBOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; DNA SEQUENCE; DOG; FEMALE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INSECT BITE; IRAN; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHLEBOTOMUS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

ANIMALS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; HUMANS; INFANT; INSECTICIDES; IRAN; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; NITRILES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSYCHODIDAE; PYRETHRINS;

CANIS FAMILIARIS; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; PHLEBOTOMUS PERFILIEWI;

EID: 48349124934     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2008.04.026     Document Type: Article

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