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Natural Leishmania donovani/Leishmania aethiopica hybrids identified from Ethiopia.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Dec 2011
Odiwuor Samwel, De Doncker Simonne, Maes Ilse, Dujardin Jean-Claude, Van der Auwera Gert
Abstract excerpt
Natural hybridization events have been demonstrated between closely and distantly related Leishmania groups despite a predominantly clonal and endogamically sexual mode of reproduction. Here we report the first natural hybrid between Leishmania aethiopica and Leishmania donovani, as evidenced from the analysis of several clones from strain MHOM/ET/94/ABAUY. Targeted species-identification PCRs revealed the...
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