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SUBMITTER: Bualert L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3335686 | biostudies-literature | 2012 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 20120501 5
We report the first establishment of in vitro cultivation and genotypic characterization of Leishmania siamensis isolated from an autochthonous disseminated dermal and visceral leishmaniasis in a Thai acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) patient. The molecular identification has shown that the parasite was identical to L. siamensis, a recently described Leishmania species reported in the southern provinces of Thailand. The phylogenetic analysis has confirmed L. siamensis as closely related ...[more]