Caseating Granulomas in Cutaneous Leishmaniasis

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Aoun, Jessica ^a   Habib, Robert ^a   Charaffeddine, Khalil ^a   Taraif, Suad ^b   Loya, Asif ^c   Khalifeh, Ibrahim ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^b SAAD SPECIALIST HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

^c SHAUKAT KHANUM MEMORIAL CANCER HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTRE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASEATING GRANULOMA; CHILD; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GRANULOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; PARASITE LOAD; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RIDLEYS PARASITIC INDEX; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; SUPPURATIVE GRANULOMA; TUBERCULOID GRANULOMA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPLICATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; INFANT; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; VERY ELDERLY; WOUND HEALING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GRANULOMA; HUMANS; INFANT; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84920506948     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003255     Document Type: Article

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