Molecular approaches for a better understanding of the epidemiology and population genetics of Leishmania

Parasitology

Volumn 138, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 405-425

  Schnian, G ^a   Kuhls, K ^a   Mauricio, I L ^b,c  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

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

^c INSTITUTO DE HIGIENE E MEDICINA TROPICAL   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Leishmania; molecular markers; multilocus microsatellite typing; multilocus sequence typing; phylogeny; population genetics

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS DNA; CYTOCHROME B; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; KINETOPLAST DNA; MICROSATELLITE DNA; PRIMER RNA; REAGENT; REPETITIVE DNA; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 18S;

ALGERIA; ALLELE; CANDIDA; CHROMOSOME POSITIONING; CODOMINANCE; CRITHIDIA; CROSSING OVER; DIPLOIDY; DNA BARCODING; DNA BINDING MOTIF; DNA DEGRADATION; DNA DENATURATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; FLUORESCENT FRAGMENT LENGTH BARCODING; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CONVERSION; GENE FLOW; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GOLD STANDARD; HAPLOTYPE; HIGH RESOLUTION MELTING ANALYSIS; HYBRID; HYBRIDIZATION; INDEL MUTATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; ISRAEL; KINETOPLASTIDA; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIA PANAMENSIS; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; LOOP MEDIATED ISOTHERMAL AMPLIFICATION; MISMATCH REPAIR; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS ENZYME ELECTROPHORESIS; MULTILOCUS MICROSATELLITE TYPING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; PALESTINE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE LOAD; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION MIGRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCE BASED AMPLIFICATION; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; REPRODUCIBILITY; REPRODUCTIVE HISTORY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; REVERSE LINE BLOT HYBRIDIZATION; REVIEW; RNA FINGERPRINTING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SIMPLE SEQUENCE REPEAT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; TRAVEL; TRYPANOSOMA; TUNISIA;

DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENE FLOW; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIA TROPICA;

EID: 79957497359     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182010001538     Document Type: Review

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