Multifaceted population structure and reproductive strategy in leishmania donovani complex in one sudanese village

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Rougeron, Virginie ^a   de Meeûs, Thierry ^b,c   Hide, Mallorie ^a   Falher, Georges ^d   Bucheton, Bruno ^b   Dereure, Jacques ^a,e   El Safi, Sayda H ^f   Dessein, Alain ^g   Bañuls, Anne Laure ^a  

^a University de Montpellier   (France)

^b Centre International de Recherche Developpement sur lElevage en zone Subhumide Bobo Dioulasso   (Burkina Faso)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d GUI DE CHAULIAC HOSPITAL   (France)

^e MONTPELLIER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

^g AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA ARCHIBALDI; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; MATING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; REPRODUCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SUDAN; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BIOTA; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DOG DISEASE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR TYPING; PARASITOLOGY; POPULATION GENETICS; RURAL POPULATION; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

MICROSATELLITE DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA;

ANIMALS; BIOTA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR TYPING; PHYLOGENY; RURAL POPULATION; SUDAN;

EID: 84855290001     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001448     Document Type: Article

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