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The isolation and molecular characterization of Leishmania spp. from patients with American tegumentary leishmaniasis in northwest Argentina.
Acta tropica - 1 Mar 2014
Locatelli Fabricio M, Cajal S Pamela, Barroso Paola A, Lauthier Juan J, Mora María C, Juarez Marisa, Kato Hirotomo, Nasser Julio R, Hashiguchi Yoshihisa, Korenaga Masataka, Marco Jorge D
Abstract excerpt
American tegumentary leishmaniasis (ATL) is a group of zoonotic diseases caused by kinetoplastid flagellates of the genus Leishmania. A total of 66 patients diagnosed as positive ATL cases from northwest Argentina were included in this study. Leishmania stocks were isolated in vitro and analyzed over promastigote cultures sown on FTA through nested PCR and sequence of cytochrome b (cyt b). The molecular analysis...
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