Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
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Genes coding structural proteins in the Leishmania braziliensis complex

  • C. Padilla

      Affiliations

    • Instituto National de Salud, Centro Nacional de Laboratorios de Salud Pública, Lima, Perú
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  • T. Barreto

      Affiliations

    • Instituto National de Salud, Centro Nacional de Laboratorios de Salud Pública, Lima, Perú
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  • M. De Los Santos

      Affiliations

    • Instituto National de Salud, Centro Nacional de Laboratorios de Salud Pública, Lima, Perú
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  • D.C. Barker

      Affiliations

    • Molteno Laboratories, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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  • C. Carrillo

      Affiliations

    • Departamento de Microbiología, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Perú
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  • Y. Montoya

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for correspondence: Ysabel Montoya, Instituto Nacional de Salud, Centro Nacional de Laboratorios de Salud Pública, Jr Capac Yupanqui 1400, Jesus Maria, Lima, Perú; fax +511 471 9920 ext. 129.
    • Instituto National de Salud, Centro Nacional de Laboratorios de Salud Pública, Lima, Perú

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☆ Nucleotide sequence data reported in this paper have been submitted to the GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ data base with accession numbers AF045249, AF045020 and AF044682.

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