Genetic diversity of Leishmania infantum field populations from Brazil

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 39-47

  Segatto, Marcela ^a,b   Ribeiro, Lucas Secchim ^a,b   Costa, Dorcas Lamounier ^c   Costa, Carlos Henrique Nery ^c   de Oliveira, Márcia Rosa ^d   Carvalho, Sílvio Fernando Guimarães ^e   Macedo, Andréa Mara ^b   Valadares, Helder Magno Silva ^b,f   Dietze, Reynaldo ^a   de Brito, Cristiana Ferreira Alves ^g   Lemos, Elenice Moreira ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ESPÍRITO SANTO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^c Instituto Natan Portella para Doenças Tropicais   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARAÍBA   (Brazil)

^e STATE UNIVERSITY OF MONTES CLAROS   (Brazil)

^f FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^g INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Genetic diversity; Leishmania infantum; MLMT; RAPD; SSR PCR

Indexed keywords

LEISHMANIA DONOVANI CHAGASI; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM;

EID: 84857082458     PISSN: 00740276     EISSN: 16788060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000100006     Document Type: Article

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