Nested PCRs and sequencing of nuclear ITS-rDNA fragments detect three Leishmania species of gerbils in sandflies from Iranian foci of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1159-1171

  Parvizi, P ^a,b   Ready, P D ^b  

^a PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF IRAN   (Iran)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diagnostic nested PCRs; Iranian sandflies; ITS ribosomal DNA; Leishmania gerbilli; Leishmania major; Leishmania turanica

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; MICROSATELLITE DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ABUNDANCE; BIOASSAY; DETECTION METHOD; DNA; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FLY; GENETIC MARKER; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INOCULATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAN; RNA; RODENT;

AMPLICON; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GERBIL; HAPLOTYPE; IRAN; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA GERBILLI SENSU LATO; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIA TURANICA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSYCHODIDAE; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RECOMBINANT; FEMALE; GERBILLINAE; HUMANS; IRAN; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSYCHODIDAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ASIA; EURASIA; IRAN; MIDDLE EAST;

GERBILLINAE; LEISHMANIA GERBILLI; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIA TURANICA; PHLEBOTOMINAE; PHLEBOTOMUS PAPATASI; RHOMBOMYS OPIMUS;

EID: 50049111723     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2008.02121.x     Document Type: Article

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