The Potential Use of Forensic DNA Methods Applied to Sand Fly Blood Meal Analysis to Identify the Infection Reservoirs of Anthroponotic Visceral Leishmaniasis.
<h4>Background</h4>In the Indian sub-continent, visceral leishmaniasis (VL), also known as kala azar, is a fatal form of leishmaniasis caused by the kinetoplastid parasite Leishmania donovani and transmitted by the sand fly Phlebotomus argentipes. VL is prevalent in northeast India where...
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Язык: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2016-05-01
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Серии: | PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases |
Online-ссылка: | https://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0004706&type=printable |