Detection, identification and molecular typing of Leishmania major in Phlebotomus papatasi from a focus of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis in central of Iran

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 232-237

  Parvizi, Parviz ^a   Baghban, Nassrin ^b   Novin, Elnaz Alaee ^a   Absavaran, Azad ^a  

^a PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF IRAN   (Iran)

^b BRITISH LIBRARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diagnostic nested PCR; ITS rDNA; Leishmania major; Phlebotomus papatasi; Zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 1; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 5.8S;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; HAPLOTYPE; INFECTION RATE; IRAN; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MOLECULAR TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NULLIPARA; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PHLEBOTOMUS; PHLEBOTOMUS PAPATASI; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FEMALE; GERBILLINAE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; IRAN; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; PHLEBOTOMUS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 5.8S; RURAL POPULATION; ZOONOSES;

ANIMALIA; GERBILLINAE; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; PHLEBOTOMUS PAPATASI;

EID: 73449148998     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2009.10.004     Document Type: Article

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