Spatiotemporal and molecular epidemiology of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Libya

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2017, Pages

  Amro, Ahmad ^a   Al Dwibe, Hamida ^b   Gashout, Aisha ^c   Moskalenko, Olga ^d   Galafin, Marlena ^d   Hamarsheh, Omar ^a   Frohme, Marcus ^d   Jaeschke, Anja ^e   Schönian, Gabriele ^f   Kuhls, Katrin ^d  

^a AL QUDS UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIPOLI   (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRIPOLI   (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES WILDAU   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^f CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DNA EXTRACTION; FACE; FEMALE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION CONTROL; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA; LOWER LIMB; LYMPHANGITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; UPPER LIMB; ANIMAL; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHODIDAE; RODENT; TRANSMISSION; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

PROTOZOAL DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; LIBYA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHODIDAE; RODENTIA; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85030644546     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005873     Document Type: Article

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