Lee S T, Chiang S C, Singh A K, Liu H Y
Division of Infectious Diseases, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China.
J Infect Dis. 1995 Sep;172(3):891-4. doi: 10.1093/infdis/172.3.891.
An A + T-rich repeated DNA sequence cloned from maxicircle DNA of Leishmania mexicana amazonensis was found to be conserved in the maxicircles of human-infective Leishmania species but totally absent from non-human-infective ones. Differences in the pattern of distribution of this repeated sequence in the maxicircles of each human-infective Leishmania species potentially allow the development of a sensitive probe to differentiate among these species.