Sensitivity of a vacuum aspiratory culture technique for diagnosis of localized cutaneous leishmaniasis in an endemic area of leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis transmission

Sixty eight patients with localized cutaneous leishmaniasis from an area with Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis transmission had cultures performed with a modified Marzochi´s vacuum aspiratory puncture technique to establish sensitivity and contamination rate with this new method. Overall sensitivit...

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Main Authors: Romero, Gustavo Adolfo Sierra, Sampaio, Raimunda Nonata Ribeiro, Macêdo, Vanize de Oliveira, Marsden, Philip Davis
Format: Artigo
Language: English
Published: Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde 2017
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Online Access: http://repositorio.unb.br/handle/10482/25497
https://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0074-02761999000400014
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