Evaluation of PCR procedures for detecting and quantifying Leishmania donovani DNA in large numbers of dried human blood samples from a visceral leishmaniasis focus in Northern Ethiopia

BACKGROUND: Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL) is a disseminated protozoan infection caused by Leishmania donovani parasites which affects almost half a million persons annually. Most of these are from the Indian sub-continent, East Africa and Brazil. Our study was designed to elucidate the role of symptom...

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Autores principales: Abbasi, Ibrahim, Aramin, Samar, Hailu, Asrat, Shiferaw, Welelta, Kassahun, Aysheshm, Belay, Shewaye, Jaffe, Charles, Warburg, Alon
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Technical Advance
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3621070/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23530965
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-13-153

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3621070/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23530965
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-13-153

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