Epidemiologic study and molecular detection of Leishmania and sand fly species responsible of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Foum Jamâa (Azilal, Atlas of Morocco)

Acta Tropica

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-5

  Arroub, Hassan ^a   Hamdi, Salsabil ^b   Ajaoud, Malika ^b   Habbari, Khalid ^a   Lemrani, Meryem ^b  

^a SULTAN MOULAY SLIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

^b Institut Pasteur du Maroc   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Cutaneous leishmaniasis; ITS1 PCR; Leishmania tropica; Morocco; Phlebotomus sergenti

Indexed keywords

DISEASE VECTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETIOLOGY; FLY; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; LEISHMANIASIS; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; PARASITE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAN; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPTERA; FAUNA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOROCCO; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SAND FLY; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS;

ANIMALS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MALE; MOROCCO; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PSYCHODIDAE; TIME FACTORS;

AZILAL; MOROCCO; TADLA-AZILAL;

DIPTERA; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; PHLEBOTOMINAE; PHLEBOTOMUS SERGENTI; PSITTACIDAE; PSYCHODIDAE;

EID: 84875916391     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2013.03.005     Document Type: Article

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