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September 1, 2024Journal of College of Physicians And Surgeons PakistanOpen Access

Diagnostic Accuracy of Polymerase Chain Reaction Against Giemsa Staining on Tissue Biopsy for Cutaneous Leishmaniasis

A. Khalid Maria Mushtaq Gill Irfan Ali Mirza Sakeenah Hussain Naqvi Syed Adeel Hussain Gardezi Rabia Sajjad

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Abstract

To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of a commercial real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) kit targeting 18S rRNA against Giemsa-stained tissue slides in patients clinically suspected of cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL).

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Khalid et al. (2024) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e59d88b6db643587537f53 https://doi.org/10.29271/jcpsp.2024.09.1024

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