Leishmania infecting man and wild animals in Saudi Arabia. 2. Leishmania arabica n. sp |
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| Authors: | W Peters S Elbihari D A Evans |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Dept. of Medical Protozoology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, England;2. Dept. of Parasitology, College of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Resources, King Faisal University, P.O. Box 1757, Al-Hassa 31982, Saudi Arabia;1. Department of Medicine, Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar;2. Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Tripoli, Libya;3. National Center for Disease Control, Tripoli, Libya;4. Faculty of Medicine, Benghazi University, Libya;1. Waterbury Hospital, United States;2. Duke University, United States;3. Centers for Disease Control, United States;4. Yale University, United States;1. Department of Clinical Laboratory, Nagaoka Red Cross Hospital, Sensyu-2 297-1, Nagaoka-shi, Niigata-ken 940-2085, Japan;2. Kanto Chemical Co., Inc., East Muromachi Mitsui Bldg, 2-1, Nihonbashi Muromachi, 2-Chome, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 103-0022, Japan;3. Teikyo University Institute of Medical Mycology, 359 Otsuka, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-0395, Japan;4. Laboratory of Space and Environmental Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Teikyo University, 2-11-1 Kaga, Itabashi, Tokyo 173-8605, Japan;1. Institute of Nano Science and Technology, Mohali, India;2. Neurobiology Lab, Department of Zoology, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, India;3. CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, India |
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| Abstract: | Leishmania arabica n. sp., found in the rodent Psammomys obesus in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, is described. This parasite, which has also been found in a feral dog in the same area, is distinguished from the common species of the Eastern Province, L. major zymodeme LON-4, on the basis of its very distinctive isoenzyme profile (zymodeme LON-64) and kinetoplast DNA. It is morphologically indistinguishable from L. major. The new parasite has not been found in man to date and its vector is so far unknown. |
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