A Newly Emerged Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Focus in Northern Israel and Two New Reservoir Hosts of Leishmania major

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Faiman, Roy ^a   Abbasi, Ibrahim ^a   Jaffe, Charles ^a   Motro, Yoav ^b   Nasereddin, Abdelmagid ^a   Schnur, Lionel F ^a   Torem, Moshe ^c   Pratlong, Francine ^d   Dedet, Jean Pierre ^d   Warburg, Alon ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b EXTENSION SERVICE   (Israel)

^c Kibbutz Sde Eliyahu ^*  (Israel)

^d University de Montpellier   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TRAPPING; ARTICLE; BLOTTING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISRAEL; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MOUSE; MURIDAE; NONHUMAN; PHLEBOTOMUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; VOLE;

EID: 84874771763     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002058     Document Type: Article

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