SOLiD™ Sequencing of Genomes of Clinical Isolates of Leishmania donovani from India Confirm Leptomonas Co-Infection and Raise Some Key Questions

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Singh, Neeloo ^a   Chikara, Surendra ^b   Sundar, Shyam ^c  

^a CENTRAL DRUG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b Xcelris Genomics   (India)

^c BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VACCINE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCER; DRUG TARGETING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; INDIA; INSECT; KINETOPLASTIDA; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEPTOMONAS; MEDICAL DEVICE; MIXED INFECTION; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; NEGLECTED DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PREVALENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

COINFECTION; EUGLENOZOA INFECTIONS; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; INDIA; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; TRYPANOSOMATINA;

EID: 84873926165     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055738     Document Type: Article

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