Genome-wide SNP and microsatellite variation illuminate population-level epidemiology in the Leishmania donovani species complex

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 149-159

  Downing, Tim ^a   Stark, Olivia ^b   Vanaerschot, Manu ^c   Imamura, Hideo ^c   Sanders, Mandy ^a   Decuypere, Saskia ^c   de Doncker, Simonne ^c   Maes, Ilse ^c   Rijal, Suman ^d   Sundar, Shyam ^e   Dujardin, Jean Claude ^c   Berriman, Matthew ^a   Schönian, Gabriele ^b  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^d B P KOIRALA INSTITUTE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Nepal)

^e BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Diversity; Drug resistance; Leishmania infantum; Population genetics; Population markers; Visceral leishmaniasis

Indexed keywords

ANTIMONY;

AFRICA; ANTIMALARIAL DRUG RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; ASIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SENSITIVITY; EUROPE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; IN VITRO STUDY; INDIA; INDIAN; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; MALARIA CONTROL; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NEPAL; NONHUMAN; PARASITE ISOLATION; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AFRICA; ANTIMONY; ASIA; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DRUG RESISTANCE; EUROPE; GENETIC LOCI; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INDIA; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI SPECIES COMPLEX; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; PHLEBOTOMINAE;

EID: 83555178358     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: 15677257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2011.11.005     Document Type: Article

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