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Screening Leishmania donovani complex-specific genes required for visceral disease.
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) - 1 Jan 2015
Zhang Wen-Wei, Matlashewski Greg
Abstract excerpt
Leishmania protozoan parasites are the causing agent of leishmaniasis. Depending on the infecting species, Leishmania infection can causes a wide variety of diseases such as self-healing cutaneous lesions by L. major and fatal visceral leishmaniasis by L. donovani and L. infantum. Comparison of the visceral disease causing L. infantum genome with cutaneous disease causing L. major and L. braziliensis genomes has...
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