The Potential Use of Forensic DNA Methods Applied to Sand Fly Blood Meal Analysis to Identify the Infection Reservoirs of Anthroponotic Visceral Leishmaniasis

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Inbar, Ehud ^a   Lawyer, Philip ^a   Sacks, David ^a   Podini, Daniele ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FEMALE; FORENSIC DNA METHOD; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HAMSTER; HUMAN; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PHLEBOTOMUS ARGENTIPES; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; BLOOD; BLOOD EXAMINATION; DISEASE CARRIER; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENETICS; INDIA; INSECT VECTOR; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSYCHODIDAE; TIME FACTOR; TRANSMISSION;

DNA;

ANIMALS; BLOOD; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DNA; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HUMANS; INDIA; INSECT VECTORS; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSYCHODIDAE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84971667646     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004706     Document Type: Article

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