Leishmaniasis in Turkey: Determination of Leishmania Species by Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization Time-Of-Flight Mass Spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS)
Makaleler > Tam Makale · 2014
Yazarlar: GÜLNAZ ÇULHA, IŞIN AKYAR, Fadile Yildiz Zeyrek, ÖZGÜR KURT, Cumhur GÜNDÜZ, Seray TÖZ, İPEK ÖSTAN, İBRAHİM ÇAVUŞ, B GÜLKAN, ZÜHTÜ TANIL KOCAGÖZ, Yusuf ÖZBEL, AHMET ÖZBİLGİN
IRANIAN JOURNAL OF PARASITOLOGY, SCI Expanded İndekslerine Giren Dergi, Uluslararası, 2014, cilt 9, ss 239-248
Özet
Background: Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is endemic in Southeastern Anatolia, mainly in Sanliurfa and Hatay provinces, and the causative agents are mostly Leishmania tropica and less frequently L. infantum. Here, we report the first MALDI-TOF analyses of Leishmania promastigotes obtained from the cultures of two CL cases from Osmaniye and Hatay provinces who were initially diagnosed by microscopy, culture and identified as L. infantum with Real-Time PCR (RT-PCR).