Severity of tegumentary leishmaniasis is not exclusively associated with Leishmania RNA virus 1 infection in Brazil

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Volumn 108, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 665-667

  de Oliveira Ramos Pereira, Luiza ^a   Maretti Mira, Ana Cláudia ^b   Rodrigues, Káris Maria ^c   Lima, Rosimar Baptista ^a   de Oliveira Neto, Manoel Paes ^d   Cupolillo, Elisa ^a   Pirmez, Claude ^a   de Oliveira, Márcia Pereira ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^d Funda??o Oswaldo Cruz   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Leishmania; LRV; Nested retro transcription PCR; Tegumentary leishmaniasis

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA VIRUS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; VIROLOGY;

BRAZIL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA VIRUSES; RNA, VIRAL; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84879590433     PISSN: 00740276     EISSN: 16788060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276108052013021     Document Type: Article

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