Leishmania mexicana mexicana: Genetic heterogeneity of Mexican isolates revealed by restriction length polymorphism analysis of kinetoplast DNA

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 277-284

  Berzunza Cruz, M ^a   Bricaire, G ^b   Romero, S Zuluoaga ^c   Perez Becker R ^a   Saavedra Lira, E ^d   Perez Montfort R ^d   Crippa Rossi, M ^a   Velasco Castrejon O ^a   Becker, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE CAMPECHE   (Mexico)

^c SECRETARÍA DE SALUD   (Mexico)

^d INSTITUTO DE FISIOLOGÍA CELULAR   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Correlation with clinical disease; DCL, diffuse cutaneous leishmaniasis; KDNA, kinetoplast deoxyribonucleic acid; LCL, localized cutaneous leishmaniasis; Mexican Leishmania mexicana isolates; PDCL, pseudodiffuse cutaneous leishmaniasis; RFLP pattern of kDNA; RFLP, restriction fragment length polymorphism

Indexed keywords

KINETOPLAST DNA;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; KINETOPLAST; LEISHMANIA; MEXICO; PARASITE ISOLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA MEXICANA; LEISHMANIASIS MEXICANA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0033820209     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.2000.4541     Document Type: Article

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