Molecular survey on detection of leishmania infection in rodent reservoirs in Jahrom District, Southern Iran

Journal of Arthropod-Borne Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 139-146

  Davami, Mohammad Hassan ^a   Motazedian, Mohammad Hossein ^b   Kalantari, Mohsen ^b   Asgari, Qasem ^b   Mohammadpour, Iraj ^b   Sotoodeh Jahromi, Abdolreza ^a   Solhjoo, Kavous ^a   Pourahmad, Morteza ^a  

^a JAHROM UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Iran; Leishmania; PCR; Rodent; Sequencing

Indexed keywords

AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; AMASTIGOTE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; IRAN; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MERIONES PERSICUS; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; MUS MUSCULUS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RATTUS RATTUS; RODENT; RURAL AREA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; TATERA INDICA; URBAN AREA;

EID: 84899512191     PISSN: 23221984     EISSN: 23222271     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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