Journal:
:iranian journal of parasitology
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mehrdad ghasemian department of parasitology and mycology, faculty of medicine, iran university of medical sciences, tehran, iran.
mohammad javad gharavi department of parasitology, faculty of allied medicine, iran university of medical sciences, tehran, iran.
lame akhlaghi department of parasitology and mycology, faculty of medicine, iran university of medical sciences, tehran, iran.
mehdi mohebali department of parasitology, school of public health, tehran university of medical sciences, tehran, iran.
ahmad reza meamar department of parasitology and mycology, faculty of medicine, iran university of medical sciences, tehran, iran.
ehsan aryan antimicrobial resistance research center, department of medical microbiology, faculty of medicine, mashhad university of medical sciences, mashhad, iran.
background: parasitological methods for the diagnosis of visceral leishmania-sis (vl) require invasive procedures, so serological and molecular approaches have been developed but are not generally applicable in the field. we evaluated a loop mediated isothermal amplification (lamp) assay using blood from vl pa-tients and compared it to nested pcr. methods: forty-seven subjects with clinical fea...