Canine visceral leishmaniasis: Asymptomatic infected dogs as a source of L. infantum infection

Acta Tropica

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 101-105

  Moshfe, Abdolali ^a,b   Mohebali, Mehdi ^a   Edrissian, Gholamhossein ^a   Zarei, Zabih ^c   Akhoundi, Behnaz ^a   Kazemi, Bahram ^d   Jamshidi, Shahram ^e   Mahmoodi, Mahmood ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b YASUJ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c Meshkin Shahr Research Station   (Iran)

^d SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Asymptomatic; Dog; Iran; Leishmania infantum; Symptomatic

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 2; PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY; RIBOSOME DNA;

CANID; DETECTION METHOD; DNA; INFECTIVITY; LEISHMANIASIS; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; RODENT; VIRULENCE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; DOG; FEMALE; HAMSTER; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE VECTOR; PARASITE VIRULENCE; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

AGGLUTINATION TESTS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CRICETINAE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENES, RRNA; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, PROTOZOAN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ASIA; EURASIA; IRAN; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MIDDLE EAST;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CRICETINAE; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA SP.; MESOCRICETUS AURATUS;

EID: 70249109344     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2009.07.004     Document Type: Article

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