TY - GEN AU - Cruz, Israel AU - Morales, Miguel Ángel AU - Noguer, I AU - Rodríguez, A AU - Alvar, Jorge PY - 2002 DO - 10.1016/s0140-6736(02)08160-6 SN - 0140-6736 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12105/17457 AB - Needle sharing by intravenous drug users (IVDUs) has been proposed as providing an alternative, artificial, and anthroponotic cycle for leishmania transmission. We looked for parasites in syringes discarded by IVDUs using two different PCR techniques.... LA - eng PB - Elsevier KW - Syringes KW - Animals KW - DNA, Protozoan KW - Humans KW - Leishmania KW - Leishmaniasis KW - Needle Sharing KW - Polymerase Chain Reaction KW - Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length KW - Substance Abuse, Intravenous TI - Leishmania in discarded syringes from intravenous drug users TY - research article ER -