A Comparison Study between Parasitological and Molecular Methods for Diagnosis of Acute and Chronic Anthroponotic Cutaneous Leishmaniasis

• Main Authors: Susan Darudi (Author), Mehdi Mohebali (Author), Homa Hajjaran (Author), Abdolmajiid Fata (Author), Elham Kazemi-Rad (Author), Reza Raoofian (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Pasteur Institute of Iran, 2015-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Introduction: Anthroponotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (ACL) is still a major public health problem in the northeast and central parts of Iran. This study was designed to compare microscopy and cultivation methods with PCR amplification of kinetoplast DNA and ITS1 followed by RFLP analysis for diagnosi...