Diagnosis of indian visceral leishmaniasis by nucleic acid detection using pcr

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Srivastava, Pankaj ^a   Mehrotra, Sanjana ^a   Tiwary, Puja ^a   Chakravarty, Jaya ^a   Sundar, Shyam ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

18S RRNA GENE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GENE; HUMAN; INDIA; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; LEISHMANIA; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

NASO HEXACANTHUS;

PRIMER DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA; RNA 18S;

BASE SEQUENCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; INDIA; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 79955766597     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019304     Document Type: Article

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