On the identity of the parasite causing diffuse cutaneous leishmaniasis in the Dominican Republic
| Autor: | H. Bogaert-diaz, B.C. Walton, Lionel F. Schnur |
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| Rok vydání: | 1983 |
| Předmět: |
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Serotype Old World Adolescent Malate dehydrogenase Cutaneous leishmaniasis Leishmania aethiopica Cricetinae parasitic diseases medicine Animals Humans Parasite hosting Serotyping Leishmaniasis Leishmania biology Variant type Dominican Republic Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease biology.organism_classification Virology Rats Infectious Diseases Excretory system Immunology Female Parasitology |
| Zdroj: | Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 77:756-762 |
| ISSN: | 0035-9203 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/0035-9203(83)90282-1 |
| Popis: | Three isolates from disseminated cutaneous leishmaniasis (DCL) patients from an unusual focus in the Dominican Republic were studied and typed according to their behaviour in culture and experimental animals, their malate dehydrogenase (MDH) electrophoretic variant type, and excretory factor (EF) serotype. They were compared with parasites known to cause DCL in other parts of the world. On the basis of these characteristics, this parasite appears to be different from Leishmania aethiopica which causes DCL in the Old World and from both L. mexicana pifanoi and L. m. amazonensis, which are associated with DCL in the New World. However, it appeared to have some relationship to the L. mexicana-complex. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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