Evaluation of a gp63–PCR Based Assay as a Molecular Diagnosis Tool in Canine Leishmaniasis in Tunisia

• Souheila Guerbouj,

  Affiliations Laboratory of Molecular Epidemiology and Experimental Pathology, Pasteur Institute of Tunis, Université de Tunis el Manar, Tunis, Tunisia, Laboratory of Epidemiology and Ecology of Parasitic Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia

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• Fattouma Djilani,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Epidemiology and Ecology of Parasitic Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia

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• Jihene Bettaieb,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Medical Epidemiology, Pasteur Institute of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia

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• Bronwen Lambson,

  Current address: Centre for HIV and STI, National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa

  Affiliation Molteno Institute for Parasitology, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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• Mohamed Fethi Diouani,

  Current address: Laboratory of Veterinary Epidemiology and Microbiology, Pasteur Institute of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia

  Affiliation Laboratory of Epidemiology and Ecology of Parasitic Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia

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• Afif Ben Salah,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Medical Epidemiology, Pasteur Institute of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia

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• Riadh Ben Ismail,

  Current address: World Health Organization – Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office (WHO – EMRO), Cairo, Egypt

  Affiliation Laboratory of Epidemiology and Ecology of Parasitic Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia

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• Ikram Guizani

  * E-mail: ikram.guizani@pasteur.rns.tn

  Affiliations Laboratory of Molecular Epidemiology and Experimental Pathology, Pasteur Institute of Tunis, Université de Tunis el Manar, Tunis, Tunisia, Laboratory of Epidemiology and Ecology of Parasitic Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia

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