Leishmania taxonomy up for promotion?

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 49-50

  Van der Auwera, Gert ^a   Fraga, Jorge ^b   Montalvo, Ana Margarita ^b   Dujardin, Jean Claude ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA TROPICAL PEDRO KOURÍ   (Cuba)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; GENE SEQUENCE; LEISHMANIA; LETTER; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESERVOIR; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALS; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME; GENOTYPE; LEISHMANIA; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 79251598845     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2010.11.007     Document Type: Letter

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