Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jun 2021)

Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Caused by an Unknown Leishmania Strain, Arizona, USA

  • Marcos de Almeida,
  • Yueli Zheng,
  • Fernanda S. Nascimento,
  • Henry Bishop,
  • Vitaliano A. Cama,
  • Dhwani Batra,
  • Yvette Unoarumhi,
  • Abaseen K. Afghan,
  • Vivian Y. Shi,
  • Philip E. LeBoit,
  • Eugene W. Liu,
  • Fariba M. Donovan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2706.204198
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 27, no. 6
pp. 1714 – 1717

Abstract

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We investigated an autochthonous case of cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by a genetically different Leishmania sp. in a patient in Arizona, USA. This parasite was classified into the subgenus Leishmania on the basis of multilocus DNA sequence and phylogenetic analyses of the rRNA locus and 11 reference genes.

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