Peripheral blood buffy coat smear: a promising tool for diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Salam, Md. Abdus, Khan, Md. Gulam Musawwir, Bhaskar, Khondaker Rifat Hasan, Afrad, Mokibul Hassan, Huda, M. Mamun, Mondal, Dinesh
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: American Society for Microbiology 2012
• الموضوعات: RC111 Infectious and Parasitic Diseases
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://irep.iium.edu.my/87177/1/JCM-2012-Salam.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/87177/; http://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.05067-11

Confirmative diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is still a challenge at the primary health care facilities in most of the rural areas of endemicity in the Indian subcontinent. Conventional methods for parasitological confirmation are risky and require skilled personnel, and hence they are unav...