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SUBMITTER: Supsrisunjai C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5417211 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 20170130 5
AbstractSeveral case reports of autochthonous leishmaniasis in Thailand have been published since 1996. Most of the previous cases presented with visceral leishmaniasis (VL) and were mostly reported in southern part of Thailand. Recently, it has been evident that <i>Leishmania martiniquensis</i> is the main cause of <i>Leishmania</i> infection in Thailand. However, <i>Leishmania siamensis</i> (PCM2 Trang isolate) was found to be of a separate lineage with restricted distribution in southern Thai ...[more]