Increase of imported Leishmaniasis in the Netherlands: a twelve year overview (1996-2007)

International Health

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 42-46

  Herremans, Tineke ^a   Pinelli, Elena ^a   Casparie, Mariel ^b   Nozari, Nahid ^a   Roelfsema, Jeroen ^a   Kortbeek, Laetitia ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b Foundation PALGA   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

cutaneous leishmaniasis; Laboratory; Leishmania; mucocutaneous leishmaniasis; Pathology; visceral leishmaniasis

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; RNA 18S;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFGHANISTAN; AGED; AGGLUTINATION TEST; AMERICAN LEISHMANIASIS; ARTICLE; BELIZE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CHILD; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IRAQ; LABORATORY TEST; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEROLOGY; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; SOLDIER; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

EID: 77749258128     PISSN: 18763413     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.inhe.2009.12.005     Document Type: Article

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