Use of FTA cards for direct sampling of patients' lesions in the ecological study of cutaneous leishmaniasis

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 3661-3665

  Kato, Hirotomo ^a   Cáceres, Abraham G ^b,c   Mimori, Tatsuyuki ^d   Ishimaru, Yuka ^a   Sayed, Amal S M ^a,e   Fujita, Megumi ^a   Iwata, Hiroyuki ^a   Uezato, Hiroshi ^f   Velez, Lenin N ^g   Gomez, Eduardo A L ^h   Hashiguchi, Yoshihisa ⁱ  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos   (Peru)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD   (Peru)

^d KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e Assiut University   (Egypt)

^f UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^g Ministerio de Salud Publica   (Ecuador)

^h Servicio Nacional de Erradicacion de la Malaria SNEM   (Ecuador)

ⁱ KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; MANNOSE PHOSPHATE ISOMERASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; DIAGNOSTIC KIT; FEMALE; FTA CARD; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; INFANT; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA LAINSONI; LEISHMANIA PERUVIANA; LEISHMANIA SHAWI; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CYTOCHROMES B; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MALE; MANNOSE-6-PHOSPHATE ISOMERASE; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; PERU; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SPECIMEN HANDLING; YOUNG ADULT;

LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA GUYANENSIS; LEISHMANIA LAINSONI; LEISHMANIA PERUVIANA; LEISHMANIA SHAWI;

EID: 77957801621     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00498-10     Document Type: Article

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