Identification of Tunisian Leishmania spp. by PCR amplification of cysteine proteinase B (cpb) genes and phylogenetic analysis

Acta Tropica

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 357-365

  Chaouch, Melek ^a   Fathallah Mili, Akila ^a,b   Driss, Mehdi ^a   Lahmadi, Ramzi ^a   Ayari, Chiraz ^a   Guizani, Ikram ^a   Ben Said, Moncef ^b   BenAbderrazak, Souha ^a  

^a PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^b FARHAT HACHED HOSPITAL   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Cpb; Leishmania; Nagt; PCR; Phylogeny; Tunisia

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE B; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE 1 PHOSPHATE TRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

GENE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CPB GENE; GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA KILLICKI; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; NAGT GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CYSTEINE PROTEASES; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSFERASES (OTHER SUBSTITUTED PHOSPHATE GROUPS); TUNISIA;

TUNISIA;

LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA KILLICKI; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIA TROPICA;

EID: 84872127325     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2012.11.012     Document Type: Article

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