Moroccan Leishmania infantum: Genetic Diversity and Population Structure as Revealed by Multi-Locus Microsatellite Typing

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Amro, Ahmad ^a,f   Hamdi, Salsabil ^b   Lemrani, Meryem ^b   Mouna, Idrissi ^c   Mohammed, Hida ^c   Mostafa, Sabri ^d   Rhajaoui, Mohamed ^e   Hamarsheh, Omar ^a   Schönian, Gabriele ^f  

^a AL QUDS UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

^b Institut Pasteur du Maroc   (Morocco)

^c SIDI MOHAMED BEN ABDELLAH UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

^d IBN SINA HOSPITAL   (Morocco)

^e INSTITUT NATIONAL D HYGIÈNE   (Morocco)

^f CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; EUROPE; GENE FLOW; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MOROCCO; MULTILOCUS ENZYME ELECTROPHORESIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TUNISIA;

GENETIC VARIATION; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOROCCO; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84885706308     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0077778     Document Type: Article

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