Use of Monoclonal Antibodies for the Identification of Leishmania spp. Isolated from Humans and Wild Rodents in the State of Campeche, Mexico

The genus Leishmania includes 30 described species which infect a wide variety of mammalian hosts. The precise identification of leishmanial parasites at the species level is very important in order to determine whether an organism, causing the disease in a given area, is of the same biotype as that...

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Main Authors: Silvia B CantoLara, Nicole R Van Wynsberghe, Alberto Vargas-González, Fanny F Ojeda-Farfán, Fernando J Andrade-Narváez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ) 1999-05-01
Series:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0074-02761999000300005&tlng=en