American tegumentary leishmaniasis: Langerhans cells in Montenegro skin test

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 283-286

  Nogueira, Marcia Ferraz ^a,c   Sotto, Mírian N ^b   Cucé, Luiz Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTO AMARO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cutaneous leishmaniasis; Delayed type hypersensitivity; Immunopathology; Langerhans cells; Skin

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTIOCYTE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; LANGERHANS CELL; LEISHMANIA; MALE; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; SKIN TEST;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; LANGERHANS CELLS; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; LEISHMANIASIS, MUCOCUTANEOUS; SKIN TESTS;

EID: 56049100540     PISSN: 00364665     EISSN: 16789946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0036-46652008000500007     Document Type: Article

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