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Sudanese mucosal leishmaniasis: isolation of a parasite within the Leishmania donovani complex that differs genotypically from L. donovani causing classical visceral leishmaniasis.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Jan 2005
Mahdi Muzamil, Elamin Elwaleed M, Melville Sara E, Musa Ahmed M, Blackwell Jenefer M, Mukhtar Moawia M, Elhassan Ahmed M, Ibrahim Muntaser E
Abstract excerpt
Mucosal leishmaniasis, which is a sporadic disease in the Sudan, was shown by isoenzyme characterization and PCR to be caused by Leishmania donovani. However, it was not clear if the parasite was exactly the same strain as that causing visceral leishmaniasis (VL), or of a different strain. We uti...
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