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Genetic diversity of Leishmania tropica: Unexpectedly complex distribution pattern.
Acta tropica - 1 Jun 2021
Charyyeva Arzuv, Çetinkaya Ülfet, Özkan Bora, Şahin Serkan, Yaprak Nermin, Şahin Izzet, Yurchenko Vyacheslav, Kostygov Alexei Yu
Abstract excerpt
In this study, we characterized a collection of clinical samples obtained from Syrian and Turkish patients with cutaneous leishmaniasis using internal transcribed spacer 1 (ITS1) sequences. All obtained sequences belonged to Leishmania tropica. Combining them with those available from GenBank allowed us performing a broad-scale analysis of genetic diversity for this species. We demonstrated that L. tropica has a...
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