Diagnosis and identification of Leishmania spp. from giemsa-stained slides, by real-time PCR and melting curve analysis in south-west of Iran

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 105, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 559-565

  Khademvatan, S ^a   Neisi, N ^a   Maraghi, S ^a   Saki, J ^a  

^a AHVAZ JUNDISHAPUR UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KINETOPLAST DNA;

AMASTIGOTE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GIEMSA STAIN; HUMAN; IRAN; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MELTING CURVE ANALYSIS; MICROSCOPY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; AZURE STAINS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MICROSCOPY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84455160872     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: 13648594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/2047773211Y.0000000014     Document Type: Article

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