| use of enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for detection of natural leishmania infections in phlebotomine sand flies from southeastern turkey. | in total, 320 phelebotomine sand flies from alibozlu (osmaniye), kizyusuflu (osmaniye), and sanliurfa in southeastern turkey were tested for the detection and identification of leishmania in vector sand flies by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay with species-specific monoclonal antibodies. we used monoclonal antibodies that recognize both leishmania tropica and leishmania major, and a monoclonal antibody specific only to l. tropica. phosphate-buffered saline and monoclonal antibody m2 recognizin ... | 2006 | 16619606 |
| [is the agent of cutaneous leishmaniasis in sanliurfa changing? first cases of leishmania major]. | today, almost 2 million new leishmaniasis cases are noted annually; 1.5 million of these are cutaneous (cl), and others are visceral leishmaniasis (vl). in sanliurfa, cl cases caused by leishmania tropica but not by other agents such as l. infantum and l. major. l. tropica is a unique parasite species in sanliurfa and is the causative agent of anthroponotic cl (transmitted from human to vector to human). our aim was to report 3 new cl cases due to l. major ( 2 autochthonous and 1 imported) ident ... | 2014 | 25732888 |