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The identification and variability of the parasites causing leishmaniasis in HIV-positive patients in Italy.
Annals of tropical medicine and parasitology - 1 Oct 2003
Gramiccia M
Abstract excerpt
Between 1988 and 1998, 258 Leishmania strains from patients infected with HIV were characterized by iso-enzyme electrophoresis at the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS) in Rome. Most (227) of the isolates came from 80 Italian patients with visceral leishmaniasis (VL), the rest from cases of Leishmania/HIV co-infection in other Mediterranean countries. Every strain was found to be Leishmania infantum. In Italy, 19...
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