Serological and genetic analysis of leptospirosis in patients with acute febrile illness in Kandy, Sri Lanka

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 474-475

  Koizumi, Nobuo ^a   Gamage, Chandika D ^b   Muto, Maki ^a   Kularatne, Senanayake A M ^c   Budagoda, Sudhara B D S ^c   Rajapakse, Jayanthe R P V ^d   Tamashiro, Hidehiko ^b   Watanabe, Haruo ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PERADENIYA   (Sri Lanka)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PERADENIYA   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGGLUTINATION TEST; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BLOOD GROUP TYPING; DNA EXTRACTION; EPIDEMIC; FEVER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIRA FLAB GENE; LEPTOSPIRA ICTEROHEMORRHAGICA; LEPTOSPIRA SEJROE; LEPTOSPIROSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SEROTYPE; SRI LANKA;

EID: 75149183597     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7883/yoken.jjid.2009.474     Document Type: Article

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