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Genotype profile of Leishmania major strains isolated from tunisian rodent reservoir hosts revealed by multilocus microsatellite typing.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
Ghawar Wissem, Attia Hanène, Bettaieb Jihene, Yazidi Rihab, Laouini Dhafer, Salah Afif Ben
Abstract excerpt
Zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (ZCL) caused by Leishmania (L.) major parasites represents a major health problem with a large spectrum of clinical manifestations. Psammomys (P.) obesus and Meriones (M.) shawi represent the most important host reservoirs of these parasites in Tunisia. We already reported that infection prevalence is different between these two rodent species. We aimed in this work to evaluate...
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