Easy test for visceral leishmaniasis and post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1304-1306

  Saha, Samiran ^a   Goswami, Ramaprasad ^b   Pramanik, Netai ^b   Guha, Subhasis K ^b   Saha, Bibhuti ^b   Rahman, Mehebubar ^b   Mallick, Sudeshna ^b   Modak, Dolanchampa ^b   Silva, Fernando O ^c   Mendonca, Ivete L ^c   Costa, Dorcas L ^c   Costa, Carlos H N ^c   Ali, Nahid ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL BIOLOGY   (India)

^b CALCUTTA SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (India)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PIAUÍ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIGEN;

BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIPSTICK TESTING; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEVER; FILARIASIS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEPROSY; LETTER; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; PROMASTIGOTE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; TUBERCULOSIS; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BRAZIL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; INDIA; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79959862195     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1707.100801     Document Type: Letter

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