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SUBMITTER: Paz C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3592546 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Paz Carlos C Samake Sibiry S Anderson Jennifer M JM Faye Ousmane O Traore Pierre P Tall Koureishi K Cisse Moumine M Keita Somita S Valenzuela Jesus G JG Doumbia Seydou S
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 20130116 3
Leishmania major is the only species of Leishmania known to cause cutaneous leishmanisis (CL) in Mali. We amplified Leishmania DNA stored on archived Giemsa-stained dermal scraping slides obtained from self-referral patients with clinically suspected CL seen in the Center National d'Appui A La Lutte Contre La Maladie (CNAM) in Bamako, Mali, to determine if any other Leishmania species were responsible for CL in Mali and evaluate its geographic distribution. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplif ...[more]