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Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Caused by an Unknown Leishmania Strain,Arizona, USA |
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| Authors: | Marcos de Almeida Yueli Zheng Fernanda S. Nascimento Henry Bishop Vitaliano A. Cama Dhwani Batra Yvette Unoarumhi Abaseen K. Afghan Vivian Y. Shi Philip E. LeBoit Eugene W. Liu Fariba M. Donovan |
| Affiliation: | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (M. de Almeida, Y. Zheng, F.S. Nascimento, H. Bishop, V.A. Cama, D. Batra, Y. Unoarumhi, E.W. Liu);Eagle Global Scientific, San Antonio, Texas, USA (Y. Zheng);University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, Arizona, USA (A.K. Afghan, V.Y. Shi, F.M. Donovan);University of California, San Francisco, California, USA (P.E. LeBoit) |
| Abstract: | We investigated an autochthonous case of cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by a genetically different Leishmania sp. in a patient in Arizona, USA. This parasite was classified into the subgenus Leishmania on the basis of multilocus DNA sequence and phylogenetic analyses of the rRNA locus and 11 reference genes. |
| Keywords: | cutaneous leishmaniasis autochthonous leishmaniasis leishmaniasis Leishmania parasites unknown strain subgenus clinical case vector-borne infections zoonoses Arizona United States |