Evaluation of PCR assay in diagnosis and identification of cutaneous leishmaniasis: A comparison with the parasitological methods

Parasitology Research

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1159-1162

  Shahbazi, Farideh ^a   Shahabi, Saed ^a   Kazemi, Bahram ^a,b   Mohebali, Mehdi ^c   Abadi, Ali Reza ^a   Zare, Zabiholah ^c  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DNA EXTRACTION; HUMAN; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; LEISHMANIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROBIAL IDENTIFICATION; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; SMEAR;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; IRAN; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

LEISHMANIA TROPICA;

EID: 51449090123     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-008-1111-4     Document Type: Article

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