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| Title |
Polymorphism-specific PCR enhances the diagnostic performance of American tegumentary leishmaniasis and allows the rapid identification of Leishmania species from Argentina
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| Published in |
BMC Infectious Diseases, August 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2334-12-191 |
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| Authors |
Jorge D Marco, Paola A Barroso, Tatsuyuki Mimori, Fabricio M Locatelli, Ayako Tomatani, María C Mora, S Pamela Cajal, Julio R Nasser, Luis A Parada, Taketoshi Taniguchi, Masataka Korenaga, Miguel A Basombrío, Yoshihisa Hashiguchi |
| Abstract |
The diagnosis of the leishmaniases poses enormous challenges in Argentina. The Polymorphism-Specific PCR (PS-PCR) designed and validated in our laboratories has been proven effective for typifying the Leishmania genus from cultured material. Here we evaluated the performance of this method in the diagnosis of American tegumentary leishmaniasis (ATL) and the rapid identification of Leishmania spp. directly from clinical specimens. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 50% |
| Unknown | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Peru | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 63 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 10 | 16% |
| Student > Bachelor | 8 | 13% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 6 | 9% |
| Student > Master | 6 | 9% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 5 | 8% |
| Other | 12 | 19% |
| Unknown | 17 | 27% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 15 | 23% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 10 | 16% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 5 | 8% |
| Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine | 2 | 3% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 2 | 3% |
| Other | 6 | 9% |
| Unknown | 24 | 38% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 August 2012.
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#17,662,702
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#5,067
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#123,968
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#48
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