Natural Leishmania donovani/Leishmania aethiopica hybrids identified from Ethiopia

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2113-2118

  Odiwuor, Samwel ^a,b,c   De Doncker, Simonne ^a   Maes, Ilse ^a   Dujardin, Jean Claude ^a,c   Van der Auwera, Gert ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

AFLP; Hybrid; Leishmania aethiopica; Leishmania donovani; Recombination

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HYBRID; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA AETHIOPICA; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; MOLECULAR CLONING; NATURAL HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ETHIOPIA; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

LEISHMANIA AETHIOPICA; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI;

EID: 82655182039     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: 15677257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2011.04.026     Document Type: Article

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