Population Structure and Evidence for Both Clonality and Recombination among Brazilian Strains of the Subgenus Leishmania (Viannia)

• Katrin Kuhls,

  Current address: Molecular Biotechnology and Functional Genomics, University of Applied Sciences Wildau, Germany.

  Affiliation Institut für Mikrobiologie und Hygiene, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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• Elisa Cupolillo,

  Affiliation Laboratório de Pesquisa em Leishmaniose, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz - Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Soraia O. Silva,

  Affiliation Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

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• Carola Schweynoch,

  Affiliation Institut für Mikrobiologie und Hygiene, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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• Mariana Côrtes Boité,

  Affiliation Laboratório de Pesquisa em Leishmaniose, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz - Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Maria N. Mello,

  Affiliation Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

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• Isabel Mauricio,

  Affiliations Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Lisboa, Portugal, Department of Pathogen Molecular Biology, Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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• Michael Miles,

  Affiliation Department of Pathogen Molecular Biology, Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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• Thierry Wirth,

  Affiliation Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Département de Systématique et Évolution, UMR-CNRS 7205, Paris, France

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• Gabriele Schönian

  * E-mail: gabriele.schoenian@charite.de

  Affiliation Institut für Mikrobiologie und Hygiene, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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