Genomes of Leishmania parasites directly sequenced from patients with visceral leishmaniasis in the Indian subcontinent.

Whole genome sequencing (WGS) is increasingly used for molecular diagnosis and epidemiology of infectious diseases. Current Leishmania genomic studies rely on DNA extracted from cultured parasites, which might introduce sampling and biological biases into the subsequent analyses. Up to now, direct a...

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Main Authors: Malgorzata A Domagalska, Hideo Imamura, Mandy Sanders, Frederik Van den Broeck, Narayan Raj Bhattarai, Manu Vanaerschot, Ilse Maes, Erika D'Haenens, Keshav Rai, Suman Rijal, Matthew Berriman, James A Cotton, Jean-Claude Dujardin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-12-01
Series:PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0007900&type=printable