A FRET-Based Real-Time PCR Assay to Identify the Main Causal Agents of New World Tegumentary Leishmaniasis

• Pablo Tsukayama ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Pablo Tsukayama, Jorge H. Núñez

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 6 (NAMRU-6), Lima, Peru

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• Jorge H. Núñez ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Pablo Tsukayama, Jorge H. Núñez

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 6 (NAMRU-6), Lima, Peru

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• Maxy De Los Santos,

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 6 (NAMRU-6), Lima, Peru

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• Valeria Soberón,

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 6 (NAMRU-6), Lima, Peru

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• Carmen M. Lucas,

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 6 (NAMRU-6), Lima, Peru

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• Greg Matlashewski,

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

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• Alejandro Llanos-Cuentas,

  Affiliation Leishmaniasis Working Group, Instituto de Medicina Tropical ‘Alexander von Humboldt’, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru

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• Marianela Ore,

  Affiliation Hospital Militar Central, Lima, Perú

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• G. Christian Baldeviano,

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 6 (NAMRU-6), Lima, Peru

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• Kimberly A. Edgel,

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 6 (NAMRU-6), Lima, Peru

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• Andres G. Lescano ,

  * E-mail: willy.lescano@med.navy.mil

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 6 (NAMRU-6), Lima, Peru

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• Paul C. F. Graf,

  Affiliations Department of Parasitology, U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 6 (NAMRU-6), Lima, Peru, Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory Department, Naval Medical Center San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

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• David J. Bacon

  Affiliations Department of Parasitology, U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 6 (NAMRU-6), Lima, Peru, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C., United States of America

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