Diagnosis of Indian visceral leishmaniasis by nucleic acid detection using PCR.
PCR based diagnosis for Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL), despite numerous published primers, remains far from being applied in the field. The present study was planned to design a Leishmania specific diagnostic assay and to evaluate its sensitivity and specificity on a sample size, which to the best of...
Main Authors: | Pankaj Srivastava, Sanjana Mehrotra, Puja Tiwary, Jaya Chakravarty, Shyam Sundar |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2011-04-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3084819?pdf=render |
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