PCR diagnosis and characterization of Leishmania in local and imported clinical samples

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease - Tập 47 Số 1 - Trang 349-358 - 2003
Gabriele Schönian1, Abedelmajeed Nasereddin2, Nicole Dinse1, Carola Schweynoch1, Henk D. F. H. Schallig3, W Presber1, Charles L. Jaffe2
1Institute of Microbiology and Hygiene, Humboldt University, Charité, Berlin, Germany
2Kuvin Centre for the Study of Tropical and Infectious Diseases, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel
3KIT (Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen/Royal Tropical Institute), Biomedical Research, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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