Isolation and identification of Leishmania species from sandflies and rodents collected from Roffaye District, khuzestan province, southwest of Iran

Jundishapur Journal of Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Vazirianzadeh, Babak ^a   Saki, Jasem ^a   Jahanifard, Elham ^a,b   Zarean, Mehdi ^a   Amraee, Kamyar ^a   Pour, Sharokh Navid ^c  

^a AHVAZ JUNDISHAPUR UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c RAZI VACCINE AND SERUM RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Iran)

Author keywords

Leishmaniasis; Nested PCR; Phlebotomus papatasi; Tatera indica

Indexed keywords

ALACTAGA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GERBIL; IRAN; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE VECTOR; PHLEBOTOMUS PAPATASI; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSYCHODIDAE; RAT; RESERVOIR; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

LEISHMANIA MAJOR; PHLEBOTOMINAE; PHLEBOTOMUS PAPATASI; RODENTIA; TATERA INDICA;

EID: 84882640785     PISSN: 20083645     EISSN: 20084161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5812/jjm.10025     Document Type: Article

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