Identification and phylogenetic relationship of Iranian strains of various Leishmania species isolated from cutaneous and visceral cases of leishmaniasis based on N-acetylglucosamine-1-phosphate transferase gene

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 26, Issue , 2014, Pages 203-212

  Hajjaran, Homa ^a   Mohebali, Mehdi ^a   Teimouri, Aref ^a   Oshaghi, Mohammad Ali ^a   Mirjalali, Hamed ^a   Kazemi Rad, Elham ^a   Shiee, Mohammad Reza ^a   Naddaf, Saied Reza ^b  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF IRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Iran; Leishmania; Nagt gene; PCR RFLP; Phylogenetic; Population structure

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; IRAN; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA GERBILLI; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; LEISHMANIA TURANICA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE 1 PHOSPHATE TRANSFERASE GENE; NAGT GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; DOG; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; RODENT;

PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; UDPACETYLGLUCOSAMINE-DOLICHYL-PHOSPHATE ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE-1-PHOSPHATE TRANSFERASE;

ANIMALS; DOGS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IRAN; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RODENTIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSFERASES (OTHER SUBSTITUTED PHOSPHATE GROUPS);

EID: 84902968544     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: 15677257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2014.05.026     Document Type: Article

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