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Multilocus microsatellite typing (MLMT) reveals genetic homogeneity of Leishmania donovani strains in the Indian subcontinent.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Jan 2009
Alam Mohammad Zahangir, Kuhls Katrin, Schweynoch Carola, Sundar Shyam, Rijal Suman, Shamsuzzaman Abul Khair M, Raju Balaraju Venkata Subba, Salotra Poonam, Dujardin Jean-Claude, Schönian Gabriele
Abstract excerpt
In this population genetic study of Leishmania donovani parasites in the Indian subcontinent, 132 isolates obtained from patients in Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Sri Lanka suffering from Kala-azar (100), post-Kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis (PKDL) (25) and cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) (2), and from 5 patients whose clinical patterns were not defined, were analysed by using 15 hyper-variable microsatellite loci....
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