Comparative microsatellite typing of new world leishmania infantum reveals low heterogeneity among populations and its recent old world origin

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Kuhls, Katrin ^a   Alam, Mohammad Zahangir ^a,g   Cupolillo, Elisa ^b   Ferreira, Gabriel Eduardo M ^b   Mauricio, Isabel L ^c,h   Oddone, Rolando ^d   Feliciangeli, M Dora ^e   Wirth, Thierry ^f   Miles, Michael A ^c   Schönian, Gabriele ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

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

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

^e UNIVERSIDAD DE CARABOBO   (Venezuela)

^f MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^g BANGLADESH AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

^h INSTITUTO DE HIGIENE E MEDICINA TROPICAL   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIA; BRAZIL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EUROPE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HOST; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MIDDLE EAST; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; SOUTH AMERICA; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR TYPING; PARASITOLOGY; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

AMERICAS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

EID: 79959861777     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001155     Document Type: Article

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