Evaluation of blood agar microtiter plates for culturing Leishmania parasites to titrate parasite burden in spleen and peripheral blood of patients with visceral leishmaniasis

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1932-1934

  Maurya, Radheshyam ^a,c   Mehrotra, Sanjana ^a   Prajapati, Vijay Kumar ^a   Nylén, Susanne ^b   Sacks, David ^b   Sundar, Shyam ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; DILUTION; LEISHMANIA; MICROTITER PLATE ASSAY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE ISOLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPLEEN BIOPSY; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

AGAR; BLOOD; CULTURE MEDIA; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPLEEN;

EID: 77951848594     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01733-09     Document Type: Article

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