| serodiagnosis and epidemiology of visceral leishmaniasis in turkey. | infantile mediterranean visceral leishmaniasis (ivl) and anthroponotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (acl) have long been known to exist in the western and southeastern turkey, respectively. to further study these and other related diseases, a recombinant antigen (rk39) specific to vl was used in an elisa for serodiagnosis of selected patients and for screening dog reservoir populations in several endemic sites. among 24 confirmed vl cases from western turkey, the rk39 elisa proved to be more sensitiv ... | 1998 | 9749626 |