Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Caused by an Unknown Leishmania Strain, Arizona, USA

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  de Almeida, Marcos ; Zheng, Yueli ; Nascimento, Fernanda S. ; Bishop, Henry ; Cama, Vitaliano A. ; Batra, Dhwani ; Unoarumhi, Yvette ; Afghan, Abaseen K. ; Shi, Vivian Y. ; LeBoit, Philip E. ; Liu, Eugene W. ; Donovan, Fariba M.
• Description:
  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.
• Subjects:
  Autochthonous Leishmaniasis Clinical Case Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Caused By An Unknown Leishmania Strain, Arizona, Usa Dispatch Leishmania Leishmaniasis Parasites Subgenus Unknown Strain Vector-Borne Infections Zoonoses

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• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 27(6):1714-1717
• Pubmed ID:
  34013870
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC8153854
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Arizona
• Volume:
  27
• Issue:
  6
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:1646fd46778c744e426c95095f7f77f43c02b6333bab1bccd12cebde4168e178
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/106891/cdc_106891_DS1.pdf
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