Multilocus sequence analysis for Leishmania braziliensis outbreak investigation.

• Main Authors: Mariel A Marlow (Author), Mariana C Boité (Author), Gabriel Eduardo M Ferreira (Author), Mario Steindel (Author), Elisa Cupolillo (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.

With the emergence of leishmaniasis in new regions around the world, molecular epidemiological methods with adequate discriminatory power, reproducibility, high throughput and inter-laboratory comparability are needed for outbreak investigation of this complex parasitic disease. As multilocus sequen...