Multilocus microsatellite typing reveals a genetic relationship but, also, genetic differences between Indian strains of Leishmania tropica causing cutaneous leishmaniasis and those causing visceral leishmaniasis
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Determination of Leishmania species causing cutaneous leishmaniasis in Mashhad by PCR-RFLP method
Three species of L. tropica, L. major and L. infantum are known as main causal agents of leishmaniasis have been reported in Iran. Since cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is endemic in North East of Iran, in the present work, 50 Leishmania positive isolates from human cases in Mashhad (Center of Razavi province, North East of Iran), were genotyped by means of polymerase chain reaction-restriction f...
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عنوان ژورنال: Parasites & Vectors
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1756-3305
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-7-123