Leptomonas seymouri: Adaptations to the Dixenous Life Cycle Analyzed by Genome Sequencing, Transcriptome Profiling and Co-infection with Leishmania donovani.

The co-infection cases involving dixenous Leishmania spp. (mostly of the L. donovani complex) and presumably monoxenous trypanosomatids in immunocompromised mammalian hosts including humans are well documented. The main opportunistic parasite has been identified as Leptomonas seymouri of the sub-fam...

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Main Authors: Natalya Kraeva, Anzhelika Butenko, Jana Hlaváčová, Alexei Kostygov, Jitka Myškova, Danyil Grybchuk, Tereza Leštinová, Jan Votýpka, Petr Volf, Fred Opperdoes, Pavel Flegontov, Julius Lukeš, Vyacheslav Yurchenko
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-08-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1005127