Peripheral Blood Buffy Coat Smear: a Promising Tool for Diagnosis of Visceral Leishmaniasis
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Peripheral blood buffy coat smear: a promising tool for diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis.
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 unavailable to the poor people in the regions of endemicity. Buffy coat smear microscopy, as a minima...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Microbiology
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0095-1137
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.05067-11