Which screening for leishmania infantum in asymptomatic blood donors?;Leishmania infantum e donatori di sangue: Quale screening?

Infezioni in Medicina

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 152-156

  Tordini, Giacinta ^a   Puttini, Camilla ^a   Rossetti, Barbara ^a   Sammarro, Gabriella ^a   Fanetti, Alessandra ^a   Cianchino, Sergio ^a   Valoriani, Beatrice ^a   Fossombroni, Vittorio ^a   Campoccia, Giuseppe ^a   Cavion, Maria Antonietta ^a   Zanelli, Giacomo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Blood donors; KDNA; Leishmania infantum

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INDIRECT IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE SEROLOGY; KINETOPLAST; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCREENING TEST; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD DONORS; BLOOD SAFETY; DNA, KINETOPLAST; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HUMANS; ITALY; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGIC TESTS;

EID: 80054759779     PISSN: 11249390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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