Navin T R, Steurer F, de Merida A M, Arana F E, Torres M F
Medical Entomology Research and Training Unit/Guatemala, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia 30333.
Am J Trop Med Hyg. 1988 Jan;38(1):50-1. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.1988.38.50.
Leishmania organisms cultivated from cutaneous lesions of humans in Guatemala were characterized by cellulose acetate electrophoresis. Six isolates had electrophoretic enzyme patterns identical to World Health Organization reference strains of Leishmania braziliensis braziliensis, and 5 had patterns identical to reference strains of Leishmania mexicana mexicana.