A Convenient and Sensitive kDNA-PCR for Screening of Leishmania infantum Latent Infection Among Blood Donors in a Highly Endemic Focus, Northwestern Iran.

Our findings justify the use of kDNA-PCR as a convenient and sensitive tool for screening subjects with leishmanial latent infection in blood banks at least in endemic regions. In these areas, however, a PCR-based test should be used to validate Leishmania infection among seropositive donors.