Detection and species identification of Leishmania DNA from filter paper lesion impressions for patients with american cutaneous leishmaniasis

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Boggild, Andrea K ^a   Valencia, Braulio Mark ^d   Espinosa, Diego ^d   Veland, Nicolas ^d   Ramos, Ana Pilar ^d   Arevalo, Jorge ^d,e   Llanos Cuentas, Alejandro ^d,f   Low, Donald E ^b,c  

^a TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA TROPICAL ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT   (Peru)

^e UNIVERSIDAD PERUANA CAYETANO HEREDIA   (Peru)

^f HOSPITAL NACIONAL CAYETANO HEREDIA   (Peru)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA PERUVIANA; MALE; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; SKIN TEST; SMEAR; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERU; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 72049095106     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/648730     Document Type: Article

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