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SUBMITTER: Klocek D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10495512 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Klocek Donnamae D Grybchuk Danyil D Tichá Lucie L Votýpka Jan J Volf Petr P Kostygov Alexei Yu AY Yurchenko Vyacheslav V
Parasitology research 20230725 10
RNA viruses play an important role in Leishmania biology and virulence. Their presence was documented in three (out of four) Leishmania subgenera. Sauroleishmania of reptiles remained the only underinvestigated group. In this work, we analyzed the viral occurrence in Sauroleishmania spp. and detected RNA viruses in three out of seven isolates under study. These viruses were of two families-Narnaviridae and Totiviridae. Phylogenetic inferences demonstrated that totiviruses from L. adleri and L. t ...[more]