Detection of leishmania donovani and L. tropica in ethiopian wild rodents

Acta Tropica

Volumn 145, Issue , 2015, Pages 39-44

  Kassahun, Aysheshm ^a   Sadlova, Jovana ^a   Dvorak, Vit ^a   Kostalova, Tatiana ^a   Rohousova, Iva ^a   Frynta, Daniel ^a   Aghova, Tatiana ^b   Yasur Landau, Daniel ^c   Lemma, Wessenseged ^d   Hailu, Asrat ^d   Baneth, Gad ^c   Warburg, Alon ^e   Volf, Petr ^a   Votypka, Jan ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE BIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^d ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^e HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

ITS1; KDNA; L. tropica; Leishmania donovani; Phlebotomine sand fly; Rodents

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; RNA 18S;

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISEASE VECTOR; DNA; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FLY; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; LEISHMANIASIS; PARASITE; RODENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ETHIOPIAN; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER GENE; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; LEISHMANIASIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RODENT; ANIMAL; ETHIOPIA; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOLOGY; PHLEBOTOMUS; PSYCHODIDAE; TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALIA; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; NASO HEXACANTHUS; PHLEBOTOMINAE; RODENTIA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; ETHIOPIA; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; PHLEBOTOMUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSYCHODIDAE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RODENTIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84924037319     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2015.02.006     Document Type: Article

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