Diagnosis of cutaneous leishmaniasis: Why punch when you can scrape?

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 518-522

  Saab, Mario ^a   El Hage, Hussein ^a   Charafeddine, Khalil ^a   Habib, Robert H ^a   Khalifeh, Ibrahim ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMASTIGOTE; ARTICLE; CHILD; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DROP SCRAPING; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; MICROSCOPY; PARASITIC INDEX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PUNCH BIOPSY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; SMEAR; SMEAR SCRAPING; ADOLESCENT; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; SKIN; SKIN TEST; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN; SKIN TESTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84924273393     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: 14761645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.14-0512     Document Type: Article

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