Leishmania (Viannia) species identification on clinical samples from cutaneous leishmaniasis patients in Peru: Assessment of a molecular stepwise approach

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 495-498

  Veland, Nicolas ^a   Boggild, Andrea K ^b   Valencia, Cristian ^a   Valencia, Braulio M ^a   Llanos Cuentas, Alejandro ^a,f   Van Der Auwera, Gert ^c   Dujardin, Jean Claude ^c,d   Arevalo, Jorge ^a,e  

^a INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA TROPICAL ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT   (Peru)

^b TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSIDAD PERUANA CAYETANO HEREDIA   (Peru)

^f HOSPITAL NACIONAL CAYETANO HEREDIA   (Peru)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; DNA EXTRACTION; HUMAN; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA LAINSONI; LEISHMANIA PERUVIANA; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; PERU; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; PARASITOLOGY; PERU; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

VIANNIA;

EID: 84856162614     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.05061-11     Document Type: Article

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