Leishmania (Viannia) infection in the domestic dog in Chaparral, Colombia

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 674-680

  Santaella, Julián ^a   Ocampo, Clara B ^a   Saravia, Nancy G ^a   Méndez, Fabián ^b   Góngora, Rafael ^a   Gomez, Maria Adelaida ^a   Munstermann, Leonard E ^c   Quinnell, Rupert J ^d  

^a CENTRO INTERNACIONAL DE ENTRENAMIENTO E INVESTIGACIONES MÉDICAS CIDEIM   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DEL VALLE   (Colombia)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLOMBIA; DOG; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SEROPREVALENCE; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; COLOMBIA; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, KINETOPLAST; DOGS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK FACTORS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

CANIS FAMILIARIS; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA GUYANENSIS; VIANNIA;

EID: 79958723458     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2011.10-0159     Document Type: Article

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