Sudanese mucosal leishmaniasis: Isolation of a parasite within the Leishmania donovani complex that differs genotypically from L. donovani causing classical visceral leishmaniasis

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 29-33

  Mahdi, Muzamil ^a   Elamin, Elwaleed M ^a   Melville, Sara E ^b   Musa, Ahmed M ^a   Blackwell, Jenefer M ^c   Mukhtar, Moawia M ^a   Elhassan, Ahmed M ^a   Ibrahim, Muntaser E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cytochrome oxidase II; Minisatellite; Mucosal leishmaniasis; Visceral leishmaniasis

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; DNA MINISATELLITE; KINETOPLAST DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORAL BIOPSY; PARASITE ISOLATION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SUDAN; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

AGED; ANIMALS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIASIS; LEISHMANIASIS, MUCOCUTANEOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; SUDAN;

LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; NASO HEXACANTHUS;

EID: 10244278099     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2004.05.008     Document Type: Article

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