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ArticleGenetics and molecular biology2021

Molecular tools confirm natural Leishmania (Viannia) guyanensis/L. (V.) shawi hybrids causing cutaneous leishmaniasis in the Amazon region of Brazil.

Ana Carolina S Lima, Claudia Maria C Gomes, Thaise Y Tomokane, Marliane Batista Campos, Ricardo A Zampieri, Carolina L Jorge, Marcia D Laurenti, Fernando T Silveira, Carlos Eduardo P Corbett, Lucile Maria Floeter-Winter

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10 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ana Carolina S LimaUniversidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Medicina, Departamento de Patologia, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6938-0641
Claudia Maria C GomesUniversidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Medicina, Departamento de Patologia, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Thaise Y TomokaneUniversidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Medicina, Departamento de Patologia, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1431-6829
Marliane Batista CamposMinistério da Saúde, Secretaria de Vigilância em Saúde, Instituto Evandro Chagas, Belém, PA, Brazil.
Ricardo A ZampieriUniversidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Fisiologia, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Carolina L JorgeUniversidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Fisiologia, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Marcia D LaurentiUniversidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Medicina, Departamento de Patologia, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Fernando T SilveiraMinistério da Saúde, Secretaria de Vigilância em Saúde, Instituto Evandro Chagas, Belém, PA, Brazil.
Carlos Eduardo P CorbettUniversidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Medicina, Departamento de Patologia, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Lucile Maria Floeter-WinterUniversidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Fisiologia, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Universidade de São Paulo · BRMinistério da Saúde · BR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Seven isolates from patients with American cutaneous leishmaniasis in the Amazon region of Brazil were phenotypically suggestive of Leishmania (Viannia) guyanensis/L. (V.) shawi hybrids. In this work, two molecular targets were employed to check the hybrid identity of the putative hybrids. Heat shock protein 70 (hsp70) gene sequences were analyzed by three different polymerase chain reaction (PCR) approaches, and two different patterns of inherited hsp70 alleles were found. Three isolates presented heterozygous L. (V.) guyanensis/L. (V.) shawi patterns, and four presented homozygous hsp70 patterns involving only L. (V.) shawi alleles. The amplicon sequences confirmed the RFLP patterns. The high-resolution melting method detected variant heterozygous and homozygous profiles. Single-nucleotide polymorphism genotyping/cleaved amplified polymorphic site analysis suggested a higher contribution from L. (V.) guyanensis in hsp70 heterozygous hybrids. Additionally, PCR-RFLP analysis targeting the enzyme mannose phosphate isomerase (mpi) gene indicated heterozygous and homozygous cleavage patterns for L. (V.) shawi and L. (V.) guyanensis, corroborating the hsp70 findings. In this communication, we present molecular findings based on partial informative regions of the coding sequences of hsp70 and mpi as markers confirming that some of the parasite strains from the Brazilian Amazon region are indeed hybrids between L. (V.) guyanensis and L. (V.) shawi.

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