Preliminary Serodiagnosis study to certify the diagnosis of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Syria
published by Damascus University
in 2003
in
and research's language is
العربية
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According to the high specificity and sensitivity of ELISA test, we tried in
this preliminary study, to certify the usefulness of ELISA test in the detection of
specific antibodies (IgG) to cutaneous leishmaniasis(CL) in SYRIA, in order to
certify the diagnosis of this disease by using the classic methods (observation
microscopic – culture).
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