Genotype Profile of Leishmania major Strains Isolated from Tunisian Rodent Reservoir Hosts Revealed by Multilocus Microsatellite Typing

Wissem Ghawar; Hanène Attia; Jihene Bettaieb; Rihab Yazidi; Dhafer Laouini; Afif Ben Salah

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0107043

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Genotype Profile of Leishmania major Strains Isolated from Tunisian Rodent Reservoir Hosts Revealed by Multilocus Microsatellite Typing

Wissem Ghawar ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Wissem Ghawar, Hanène Attia

¶WG and HA are first authors on this work.

Affiliations Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Service of Medical Epidemiology, Tunis-Belvédère, Tunisia, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, LR11IPT02, Laboratory of Transmission, Control and Immunobiology of Infections (LTCII), Tunis-Belvédère, Tunisia, Université Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia
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Hanène Attia ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Wissem Ghawar, Hanène Attia

¶WG and HA are first authors on this work.

Affiliations Institut Pasteur de Tunis, LR11IPT02, Laboratory of Transmission, Control and Immunobiology of Infections (LTCII), Tunis-Belvédère, Tunisia, Université Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia
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Jihene Bettaieb,

Affiliations Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Service of Medical Epidemiology, Tunis-Belvédère, Tunisia, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, LR11IPT02, Laboratory of Transmission, Control and Immunobiology of Infections (LTCII), Tunis-Belvédère, Tunisia, Université Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia
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Rihab Yazidi,

Affiliations Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Service of Medical Epidemiology, Tunis-Belvédère, Tunisia, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, LR11IPT02, Laboratory of Transmission, Control and Immunobiology of Infections (LTCII), Tunis-Belvédère, Tunisia, Université Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia
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Dhafer Laouini ,

* E-mail: dhafer.laouini@pasteur.rns.tn (DL); bensalah@pasteur.rns.tn (AB)

¶‡ DL and AB co-directed this study.

Affiliations Institut Pasteur de Tunis, LR11IPT02, Laboratory of Transmission, Control and Immunobiology of Infections (LTCII), Tunis-Belvédère, Tunisia, Université Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia
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Afif Ben Salah

* E-mail: dhafer.laouini@pasteur.rns.tn (DL); bensalah@pasteur.rns.tn (AB)

¶‡ DL and AB co-directed this study.

Affiliations Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Service of Medical Epidemiology, Tunis-Belvédère, Tunisia, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, LR11IPT02, Laboratory of Transmission, Control and Immunobiology of Infections (LTCII), Tunis-Belvédère, Tunisia, Université Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia
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Genotype Profile of Leishmania major Strains Isolated from Tunisian Rodent Reservoir Hosts Revealed by Multilocus Microsatellite Typing

Wissem Ghawar,
Hanène Attia,
Jihene Bettaieb,
Rihab Yazidi,
Dhafer Laouini,
Afif Ben Salah

Published: September 9, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0107043

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