Correction: Severity of Old World Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Is Influenced by Previous Exposure to Sandfly Bites in Saudi Arabia
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There is an error in the third sentence of the " Detection of human anti-PpSP32 antibodies " subsection of the Methods section. The concentration of PpSP32 should read 2 ug/ml = 0.2 ug/well, not 2 mg/ml = 0.1 mg/well. an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Severity of Old World Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Is Influenced by Previous Exposure to Sandfly Bites in Saudi Arabia
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