Multilocus Microsatellite Typing reveals intra-focal genetic diversity among strains of Leishmania tropica in Chichaoua Province, Morocco

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 28, Issue , 2014, Pages 233-239

  Krayter, Lena ^a   Alam, Mohammad Zahangir ^a   Rhajaoui, Mohamed ^b   Schnur, Lionel F ^c   Schönian, Gabriele ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT NATIONAL D HYGIÈNE   (Morocco)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Chichaoua; Intra focal diversity; Leishmania tropica; Marrakech; MLMT; Morocco

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; MOROCCO; MULTILOCUS MICROSATELLITE TYPING; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE ISOLATION; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES;

PROTOZOAL DNA;

DNA, PROTOZOAN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MOROCCO; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY;

EID: 84908373585     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: 15677257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2014.09.037     Document Type: Article

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