First Evidence of a Hybrid of Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis/L. (V.) peruviana DNA Detected from the Phlebotomine Sand Fly Lutzomyia tejadai in Peru

• Hirotomo Kato ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hirotomo Kato, Abraham G. Cáceres

  * E-mail: hkato@vetmed.hokudai.ac.jp

  Affiliation Laboratory of Parasitology, Department of Disease Control, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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• Abraham G. Cáceres ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hirotomo Kato, Abraham G. Cáceres

  Affiliations Sección de Entomología, Instituto de Medicina Tropical “Daniel A. Carrión” y Departamento Académico de Microbiología Médica, Facultad de Medicina Humana, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru, Laboratorio de Entomología, Instituto Nacional de Salud, Lima, Peru

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• Yoshihisa Hashiguchi

  Affiliations Centro de Biomedicina, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador, Prometeo, Secretaría Nacional de Educacion Superior, Ciencia, Tecnologia e Innovacion (SENESCYT), Quito, Ecuador, Department of Parasitology, Kochi Medical School, Kochi University, Kochi, Japan

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