AFLP Polymorphisms Allow High Resolution Genetic Analysis of American Tegumentary Leishmaniasis Agents Circulating in Panama and Other Members of the Leishmania Genus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Restrepo, Carlos M ^a,d   De La Guardia, Carolina ^a,d   Sousa, Octavio E ^b   Calzada, José E ^c   Fernández, Patricia L ^a   Lleonart, Ricardo ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS Y SERVICIOS DE ALTA TECNOLOGÍA   (Panama)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE PANAMÁ   (Panama)

^c Instituto Conmemorativo Gorgas de Estudios de la Salud   (Panama)

^d ACHARYA NAGARJUNA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA ARISTIDESI; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA CHAGASI; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA LAINSONI; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; LEISHMANIA PANAMENSIS; LEISHMANIA PERUVIANA; NONHUMAN; PANAMA; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE ISOLATION; PHYLOGENY; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM ANALYSIS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NEGLECTED DISEASES; PANAMA; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84883644837     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0073177     Document Type: Article

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