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Molecular Characterization of Leishmania RNA virus 2 in Leishmaniamajor from Uzbekistan.
Genes - 21 Oct 2019
Kleschenko Yuliya, Grybchuk Danyil, Matveeva Nadezhda S, Macedo Diego H, Ponirovsky Evgeny N, Lukashev Alexander N, Yurchenko Vyacheslav
Abstract excerpt
Here we report sequence and phylogenetic analysis of two new isolates of Leishmania RNA virus 2 (LRV2) found in Leishmania major isolated from human patients with cutaneous leishmaniasis in south Uzbekistan. These new virus-infected flagellates were isolated in the same region of Uzbekistan and the viral sequences differed by only nineteen SNPs, all except one being silent mutations. Therefore, we concluded that...
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