Evidence that a naturally occurring single nucleotide polymorphism in the RagC gene of Leishmania donovani contributes to reduced virulence

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About the Authors

Patrick Lypaczewski

Contributed equally to this work with: Patrick Lypaczewski, Wen-Wei Zhang

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Wen-Wei Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Patrick Lypaczewski, Wen-Wei Zhang

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Greg Matlashewski

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Leishmania donovani
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Leishmania
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Promastigotes
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Transfection
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Gene disruption
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Point mutation
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Parasitic diseases
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Mutation
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