Short report: Molecular mass screening to incriminate sand fly vectors of Andean-type cutaneous leishmaniasis in Ecuador and Peru

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 719-721

  Kato, Hirotomo ^a   Cáceres, Abraham G ^b,c   Gomez, Eduardo A ^d   Mimori, Tatsuyuki ^e   Uezato, Hiroshi ^f   Marco, Jorge D ^g   Barroso, Paola A ^g   Iwata, Hiroyuki ^a   Hashiguchi, Yoshihisa ^g  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos   (Peru)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD   (Peru)

^d Hospital Básico El Corazón   (Ecuador)

^e KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^g KOCHI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; MANNOSE PHOSPHATE ISOMERASE; RNA 18S;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; DISEASE CARRIER; ECUADOR; GENE SEQUENCE; LEISHAMNIA PERUVIANA; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; LUTZOMYIA AYACUCHENSIS; LUTZOMYIA PERUENSIS; MASS SCREENING; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PERU; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSYCHODIDAE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY;

LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; LEISHMANIA PERUVIANA; PHLEBOTOMINAE;

ANIMALS; ECUADOR; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MASS SCREENING; PERU; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PSYCHODIDAE;

EID: 55849089250     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2008.79.719     Document Type: Article

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