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Evolutionary genomics of Leishmania braziliensis across the neotropical realm.
Communications biology - 28 Nov 2024
Heeren Senne, Sanders Mandy, Shaw Jeffrey Jon, Pinto Brandão-Filho Sinval, Côrtes Boité Mariana, Motta Cantanhêde Lilian, Chourabi Khaled, Maes Ilse, Llanos-Cuentas Alejandro, Arevalo Jorge, Marco Jorge D, Lemey Philippe, Cotton James A, Dujardin Jean-Claude, Cupolillo Elisa, Van den Broeck Frederik
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The Neotropical realm, one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth, houses a broad range of zoonoses that pose serious public health threats. Protozoan parasites of the Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis clade cause zoonotic leishmaniasis in Latin America with clinical symptoms ranging from simple cutaneous to destructive, disfiguring mucosal lesions. We present the first comprehensive genome-wide continental...
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