Molecular evidence for the importation of Old World Leishmania into the Americas.

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Molecular evidence for the importation of Old World Leishmania into the Americas.

Biological research - 1 Jan 1993

Momen H, Pacheco R S, Cupolillo E, Grimaldi Júnior G

Abstract excerpt

A brief review of work carried out by the laboratory on the systematics of trypanosomatids during the last three years is given. The principal line of research has been on the taxonomy of New World Leishmania and one of the topics studied has been the determination of the autochthonous origin of...

Topics

Americas
Animals
Genotype
Leishmania
Leishmaniasis, Cutaneous
Phylogeny

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