A zoonotic focus of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Lemma, Wossenseged ^a   Erenso, Girume ^b   Gadisa, Endalamaw ^b   Balkew, Meshesha ^c   Gebre Michael, Teshome ^c   Hailu, Asrat ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GONDAR   (Ethiopia)

^b ARMAUER HANSEN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Ethiopia)

^c ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^d ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; RIBOSOME DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE FINDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYRAX; LEISHMANIA; MALE; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PHLEBOTOMUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RIVER; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; ZOONOSIS;

HETEROHYRAX BRUCEI; LEISHMANIA AETHIOPICA; PHLEBOTOMUS LONGIPES; PROCAVIA CAPENSIS; PROCAVIIDAE;

EID: 73849103583     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-2-60     Document Type: Article

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