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ArticleRevista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo2023

Genetic variability of Leishmania (Leishmania) infantum causing human visceral leishmaniasis in the Southeastern Brazil.

Vinicius Alves Lima, Renata Elen Costa Silva, Luiz Henrique Moraes Caetano Camargo, Roberto Mitsuyoshi Hiramoto, Elcio de Souza Leal, Lucia Maria Almeida Braz, José Angelo Lauletta Lindoso

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Article in Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Vinicius Alves LimaUniversidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Medicina, Departamento de Moléstias Infecciosas e Parasitárias, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Renata Elen Costa SilvaUniversidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Medicina, Departamento de Moléstias Infecciosas e Parasitárias, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Luiz Henrique Moraes Caetano CamargoUniversidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Medicina, Departamento de Moléstias Infecciosas e Parasitárias, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Roberto Mitsuyoshi HiramotoInstituto Adolfo Lutz, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Elcio de Souza LealUniversidade Federal do Pará, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Belém, Pará, Brazil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3463-0492
Lucia Maria Almeida BrazUniversidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Medicina, Departamento de Medicina Preventiva, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6493-465X
José Angelo Lauletta LindosoUniversidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Medicina, Departamento de Moléstias Infecciosas e Parasitárias, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4405-4401
Universidade de São Paulo · BRInstituto Adolfo Lutz · BRUniversidade Federal do Pará · BR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Leishmania infantum is a protozoan that causes visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in the Americas and some regions of Europe. The disease is mainly characterized by hepatosplenomegaly and fever, and can be fatal. Factors related to the host and parasite can contribute to the transmission of Leishmania and the clinical outcome. The intraspecific genetic variability of L. infantum strains may be one of these factors. In this study, we evaluated the genetic variability of L. infantum obtained from bone marrow smear slides from patients in the Sao Paulo State, Brazil. For this, the minicircle of the kDNA hypervariable region was used as target by Sanger sequencing. By analyzing the similarity of the nucleotides and the maximum likelihood tree (Fasttree), we observed a high similarity (98%) among samples. Moreover, we identified four different profiles of L. infantum. In conclusion, L. infantum strains from Sao Paulo State, Brazil, showed low diversity measured by minicircle of the kDNA hypervariable region.

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Dog DiseasesLeishmania infantumLeishmaniasis, VisceralAnimalsBrazilDNA, KinetoplastDogsHumansDNA, Kinetoplast

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PMID37878972
PMCPMC10588988
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