Accurate and rapid species typing from cutaneous and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis lesions of the New World

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 142-150

  Fraga, Jorge ^a   Veland, Nicolas ^b   Montalvo, Ana M ^a   Praet, Nicolas ^c   Boggild, Andrea K ^d,f   Valencia, Braulio M ^b   Arévalo, Jorge ^b   Llanos Cuentas, Alejandro ^b   Dujardin, Jean Claude ^c,e   Van der Auwera, Gert ^c  

^a INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA TROPICAL PEDRO KOURÍ   (Cuba)

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

^c INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^d TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Hsp70; Identification; Leishmaniasis; PCR RFLP; Peru

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70;

ACCURACY; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; GENUS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA PERUVIANA; LIMIT OF DETECTION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

GENOTYPE; HSP70 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; PERU; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

EID: 84866151049     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: 18790070     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2012.06.010     Document Type: Article

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