New Insights on Taxonomy, Phylogeny and Population Genetics of Leishmania (Viannia) Parasites Based on Multilocus Sequence Analysis

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Boité, Mariana C ^a   Mauricio, Isabel L ^b,c   Miles, Michael A ^b   Cupolillo, Elisa ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

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

^c INSTITUTO DE HIGIENE E MEDICINA TROPICAL   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; ISOCITRATE DEHYDROGENASE; MANNOSE PHOSPHATE ISOMERASE; PHOSPHOGLUCONATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ARTICLE; DNA EXTRACTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA VIANNIA; MULTILOCUS ENZYME ELECTROPHORESIS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETICS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TAXONOMY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHYLOGENY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

EID: 84870746428     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001888     Document Type: Article

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