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Identification of geographically distributed sub-populations of Leishmania (Leishmania) major by microsatellite analysis.
BMC evolutionary biology - 24 Jun 2008
Al-Jawabreh Amer, Diezmann Stephanie, Müller Michaela, Wirth Thierry, Schnur Lionel F, Strelkova Margarita V, Kovalenko Dmitri A, Razakov Shavkat A, Schwenkenbecher Jan, Kuhls Katrin, Schönian Gabriele
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Leishmania (Leishmania) major, one of the agents causing cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) in humans, is widely distributed in the Old World where different species of wild rodent and phlebotomine sand fly serve as animal reservoir hosts and vectors, respectively. Despite this, strains of L. (L.) major isolated from many different sources over many years have proved to be relatively uniform. To investigate...
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