Ghatee Mohammad Amin, Mirhendi Hossein, Karamian Mehdi, Taylor Walter R, Sharifi Iraj, Hosseinzadeh Massood, Kanannejad Zahra
Cellular and Molecular Research Center, Yasuj University of Medical Sciences, Yasuj, Iran.
Department of Parasitology, School of Medicine, Yasuj University of Medical Sciences, Yasuj, Iran.
Parasitol Res. 2018 Nov;117(11):3447-3458. doi: 10.1007/s00436-018-6041-1. Epub 2018 Aug 13.
Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is endemic in Iran and is caused predominantly by Leishmania infantum, but L. tropica is emerging as an important cause. We studied the intra-species population structure of Leishmania spp. causing VL in southwest Iran by sequence analysis of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) 1 of DNA samples from 29 bone marrow aspiration smears. L. infantum (n = 25) and L. tropica (n = 4) were identified, consisting of 10 and three ITS1 sequence types (STs), respectively. Compared to GenBank ITS1 STs, our L. infantum parasites displayed high heterogeneity but less heterogeneity compared than northwest Iranian isolates. VL affects mostly nomadic populations in southwest Iran, and their mobility may explain partly the L. infantum heterogeneity. The VL causing L. tropica was also genetically heterogeneous but genetically indistinguishable from L. tropica strains causing anthroponotic cutaneous leishmaniasis from southwest Iran.
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