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Kala-azar in a high transmission focus: an ethnic and geographic dimension.
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene - 1 Dec 1999
Ibrahim M E, Lambson B, Yousif A O, Deifalla N S, Alnaiem D A, Ismail A, Yousif H, Ghalib H W, Khalil E A, Kadaro A, Barker D C, El Hassan A M
Abstract excerpt
In 1994-1996, we studied a group of 58 game wardens stationed in an area known to be highly endemic for visceral leishmaniasis (kala-azar) for evidence of infection with Leishmania donovani. Leishmania DNA was detected by the polymerase chain reaction in the peripheral blood of cases of active kala-azar, former patients with visceral leishmaniasis, patients, and asymptomatic subjects. Using the cloned antigen...
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