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ArticleTropical medicine and infectious disease2022

Characterization of

Adelys M Reina, Juan Castillo Mewa, José E Calzada, Azael Saldaña

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Article in Tropical medicine and infectious disease, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Molecular Detection ofAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025
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  5. Advancement in Leishmaniasis Diagnosis and Therapeutics.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2023
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Adelys M ReinaDepartamento de Investigación en Parasitología, Instituto Conmemorativo Gorgas de Estudios de la Salud, Panama 0816, Panama.ORCID 0000-0002-0414-8454
Juan Castillo MewaDepartamento de Investigación en Genómica y Proteómica, Instituto Conmemorativo Gorgas de Estudios de la Salud, Panama 0816, Panama.
José E CalzadaDepartamento de Investigación en Parasitología, Instituto Conmemorativo Gorgas de Estudios de la Salud, Panama 0816, Panama.ORCID 0000-0002-6669-4290
Azael SaldañaDepartamento de Investigación en Parasitología, Instituto Conmemorativo Gorgas de Estudios de la Salud, Panama 0816, Panama.ORCID 0000-0002-5653-1332

Funding

Secretaría Nacional de Ciencia Tecnología e Innovación (SENACYT-Panamá) APY-NI-2019B
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A total of 123 DNA samples from Panamanian patients with cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) lesions were evaluated. These samples were previously confirmed with CL by a specific KDNA-Viannia PCR but had a negative parasitological diagnosis (Group A). Epidemiological variables, such as age, sex, geographic origin, evolution time, and the number and location of the lesions, were analyzed. No significant differences (p < 0.05) were found when these variables were evaluated against a control panel of 123 CL lesion samples from CL patients with positive parasitological diagnoses (Group B). Of the 123 samples (Group A), 67% (82/123) gave positive results when re-analyzed by PCR-hsp70. An analysis of 69 of these samples via PCR-hsp70-RFLP showed that 59.4% (41/69) of the found restriction patterns corresponded to Leishmania (Viannia) panamensis and 40.6% (28/69) to Leishmania (Viannia) guyanensis. Finally, the sequence and phylogenetic analysis of 32 of the samples confirmed the species in 21 (65.6%, 21/32) samples, originally characterized as L. (V.) panamensis. However, 11 samples (34.4%, 11/32), initially identified via RFLP-Hsp70 as L. (V.) guyanensis, matched the sequence of a genetic variant known as Leishmania sp.1. These results point out the species/genetic variants of Leishmania in the case of CL lesions with an apparently low parasite load.

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cutaneous leishmaniasisdiagnosisLeishmania (Viannia) panamensismolecular characterizationPanamáparasite load

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PMID36288023
PMCPMC9609048

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