Quantification of Leishmania infantum kinetoplast DNA for monitoring the response to meglumine antimoniate therapy in visceral leishmaniasis

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 868-871

  Pourabbas, Bahman ^a   Moghadam, Abdolkarim Ghadimi ^b   Pouladfar, Gholamreza ^a   Rezaee, Zahra ^a   Alborzi, Abdolvahab ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b YASUJ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KINETOPLAST DNA; MEGLUMINE ANTIMONATE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; MALE; PARASITE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA, KINETOPLAST; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; MALE; MEGLUMINE; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

LEISHMANIA INFANTUM;

EID: 84877151877     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.12-0440     Document Type: Article

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