Non-Invasive Cytology Brush PCR for the Diagnosis and Causative Species Identification of American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Peru

• Braulio Mark Valencia ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Braulio Mark Valencia, Nicolas Veland

  Affiliation Instituto de Medicina Tropical "Alexander von Humboldt", Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH), Lima, Peru

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• Nicolas Veland ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Braulio Mark Valencia, Nicolas Veland

  Affiliation Instituto de Medicina Tropical "Alexander von Humboldt", Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH), Lima, Peru

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• Milena Alba,

  Affiliation Instituto de Medicina Tropical "Alexander von Humboldt", Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH), Lima, Peru

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• Vanessa Adaui,

  Affiliation Instituto de Medicina Tropical "Alexander von Humboldt", Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH), Lima, Peru

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• Jorge Arevalo,

  Affiliations Instituto de Medicina Tropical "Alexander von Humboldt", Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH), Lima, Peru, Departamento de Ciencias Celulares y Moleculares, Facultad de Ciencias y Filosofia, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru

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• Donald E. Low,

  Affiliations Public Health Laboratories, Public Health Ontario, Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Alejandro Llanos-Cuentas,

  Affiliations Instituto de Medicina Tropical "Alexander von Humboldt", Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH), Lima, Peru, Hospital Nacional Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru

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• Andrea K. Boggild

  * E-mail: andrea.boggild@utoronto.ca

  Affiliations Tropical Disease Unit, Division of Infectious Diseases, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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