The changing profile of Cutaneous leishmaniasis agent in a central province of Iran

Tanzania Journal of Health Research

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Eslami, Gilda ^a   Anvari, Hossein ^a   Ebadi, Mohsen ^a   Nabipour, Yasamin ^a   Mirzaei, Farzaneh ^a   Gholamrezaei, Mostafa ^a  

^a SHAHID SADOUGHI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Cutaneous leishmaniasis; Identification; Iran; Leishmania major; Leishmania tropica; PCR

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOOT; GENOTYPE; HAND; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IRAN; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHLEBOTOMUS PAPATASI; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; PARASITOLOGY;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAN; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84893149044     PISSN: 18216404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4314/thrb.v15i1.5     Document Type: Article

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