Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Caused by an Unknown Leishmania Strain, Arizona, USA

Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Caused by an Unknown Leishmania Strain, Arizona, USA

We investigated an autochthonous case of cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by a genetically different Leishmania sp. in a patient in Arizona, USA. This parasite was classified into the subgenus Leishmania on the basis of multilocus DNA sequence and phylogenetic analyses of the rRNA locus and 11 refere...

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Main Authors: Marcos de Almeida, Yueli Zheng, Fernanda S. Nascimento, Henry Bishop, Vitaliano A. Cama, Dhwani Batra, Yvette Unoarumhi, Abaseen K. Afghan, Vivian Y. Shi, Philip E. LeBoit, Eugene W. Liu, Fariba M. Donovan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2021-06-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
cutaneous leishmaniasis
autochthonous leishmaniasis
leishmaniasis
Leishmania
parasites
unknown strain
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/27/6/20-4198_article

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