Development of a multilocus microsatellite typing approach for discriminating strains of Leishmania (Viannia) species

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2818-2825

  Oddone, Rolando ^a,b   Schweynoch, Carola ^a   Schönian, Gabriele ^a   De Sousa, Cintia Dos Santos ^c   Cupolillo, Elisa ^c   Espinosa, Diego ^d   Arevalo, Jorge ^d   Noyes, Harry ^e   Mauricio, Isabel ^f   Kuhls, Katrin ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Salud Universidad Nacional de Asuncion   (Paraguay)

^c INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^d INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA TROPICAL ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT   (Peru)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^f LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DINUCLEOTIDE; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ARTICLE; DINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERU; POPULATION GENETIC PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA GUYANENSIS; LEISHMANIA PERUVIANA; VIANNIA;

EID: 69949093708     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00645-09     Document Type: Article

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