Leishmania detection in sand flies using a field-deployable real-time analytic system

Military Medicine

Volumn 177, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 460-466

  McAvin, James C ^a,b,c   Swanson, Katherine I ^a   Chan, Adeline S T ^a   Quintana, Miguel ^d   Coleman, Russell E ^a,d  

^a WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Air Force Materiel Command   (United States)

^c USAF   (United States)

^d U S ARMY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER SYSTEM; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENETICS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IRAQ; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; MILITARY MEDICINE; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PSYCHODIDAE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; IRAQ; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; MILITARY MEDICINE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHODIDAE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84860634644     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: 1930613X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED-D-11-00206     Document Type: Article

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