Low Parasite Load Estimated by qPCR in a Cohort of Children Living in Urban Area Endemic for Visceral Leishmaniasis in Brazil

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  dos Santos Marques, Letícia Helena ^a   Gomes, Luciana Inácia ^b   da Rocha, Iara Caixeta Marques ^a,c   da Silva, Thaís Almeida Marques ^a   Oliveira, Edward ^b   Morais, Maria Helena Franco ^a,c   Rabello, Ana ^b   Carneiro, Mariângela ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^c Centro de Controle de Zoonoses   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARASITE LOAD; PARASITEMIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCHOOL CHILD; URBAN AREA; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASES; BRAZIL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; MALE; PARASITE LOAD; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84872044615     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001955     Document Type: Article

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