Leishmania species identification using FTA card sampling directly from patients' cutaneous lesions in the state of Lara, Venezuela

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 105, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 561-567

  Kato, Hirotomo ^a   Watanabe, Junko ^b,c   Nieto, Iraida Mendoza ^d   Korenaga, Masataka ^e   Hashiguchi, Yoshihisa ^e  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^c Japanese Red Cross College of Nursing   (Japan)

^d Hospital Central   (Venezuela)

^e KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cytochrome b; Leishmania braziliensis; Leishmania mexicana; Leishmania venezuelensis; RRNA internal transcribed spacer; Venezuela

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; RIBOSOME RNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FILTER; FTA CARD; HUMAN; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; LEISHMANIA VENEZUELENSIS; MALE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; VENEZUELA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GENES, RRNA; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VENEZUELA; YOUNG ADULT;

LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA VENEZUELENSIS;

EID: 80052961227     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: 18783503     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2011.05.009     Document Type: Article

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