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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Tschoeke DA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4182287 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Evolutionary bioinformatics online 20140923
Leishmaniasis is an infectious disease caused by Leishmania species. Leishmania amazonensis is a New World Leishmania species belonging to the Mexicana complex, which is able to cause all types of leishmaniasis infections. The L. amazonensis reference strain MHOM/BR/1973/M2269 was sequenced identifying 8,802 codifying sequences (CDS), most of them of hypothetical function. Comparative analysis using six Leishmania species showed a core set of 7,016 orthologs. L. amazonensis and Leishmania mexica ...[more]