Leishmania tropica in rock hyraxes (Procavia capensis) in a focus of human cutaneous leishmaniasis

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 814-818

  Talmi Frank, Dalit ^a   Jaffe, Charles L ^b   Nasereddin, Abedelmajeed ^b,e   Warburg, Alon ^b   King, Roni ^c   Svobodova, Milena ^d   Peleg, Ofer ^f   Baneth, Gad ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c Israel Nature and Parks Authority and Israel Electric Corporation   (Israel)

^d CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^e AL QUDS UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

^f Genaphora LTD   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; KINETOPLAST DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HYRAX; ISRAEL; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; SPECIES HABITAT; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DNA, KINETOPLAST; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; HUMANS; HYRAXES; ISRAEL; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY;

LEISHMANIA TROPICA; PROCAVIA CAPENSIS; PROCAVIIDAE;

EID: 77952737759     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2010.09-0513     Document Type: Article

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