Short report: Leishmania DNA in Phlebotomus and Sergentomyia species during a kala-azar epidemic

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Mukherjee, S
Hassan, MQ
Ghosh, A
Ghosh, KN
Bhattacharya, A
Adhya, S
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[1] Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Calcutta
[2] Institute of Chemical Biology, Calcutta 7000032
[3] Department of Biochemistry, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi
[4] National Institutes of Health, Bethesda
[5] Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven
[6] Department of Zoology, University of Calcutta, Calcutta
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10.4269/ajtmh.1997.57.423
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R1 [预防医学、卫生学];
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1004 ; 120402 ;
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The presence of Leishmania donovani DNA in sand flies caught in Indian kala-azar patients' dwellings during the epidemic of 1990-1992 was studied using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Amplification of miniexon-derived RNA genes and gpG3 mRNA was achieved in single Phlebotomus argentipes, P. papatasi, and Sergentomyia babu flies. The data suggest the possible involvement of multiple sandfly species in kala-azar transmission.
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