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Batista L, Sandoval Pacheco C, Flores G, Ferreira F, Goncalves A, Sosa-Ochoa W, et al.
Microorganisms . 2025 Feb; 13(2). PMID: 40005779
() infections range from asymptomatic (AS) to severe visceral leishmaniasis (VL). One of the manifestations is an atypical non-ulcerated cutaneous leishmaniasis (NUCL), which occurs in some locations of Central America...
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Smit S, Whitehead C, James S, Jeffares D, Godden G, Peng D, et al.
G3 (Bethesda) . 2024 Jul; 14(10). PMID: 39047060
The Nepetoideae, a subfamily of Lamiaceae (mint family), is rich in aromatic plants, many of which are sought after for their use as flavors and fragrances or for their medicinal...
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Dirkx L, Van Acker S, Nicolaes Y, Cunha J, Ahmad R, Hendrickx R, et al.
PLoS Pathog . 2024 Apr; 20(4):e1012181. PMID: 38656959
Addressing the challenges of quiescence and post-treatment relapse is of utmost importance in the microbiology field. This study shows that Leishmania infantum and L. donovani parasites rapidly enter into quiescence...
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Reis-Cunha J, Pimenta-Carvalho S, Almeida L, Coqueiro-Dos-Santos A, Marques C, Black J, et al.
Genome Res . 2024 Apr; 34(3):441-453. PMID: 38604731
Aneuploidy is widely observed in both unicellular and multicellular eukaryotes, usually associated with adaptation to stress conditions. Chromosomal duplication stability is a tradeoff between the fitness cost of having unbalanced...
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Aparecida Rogerio L, Takahashi T, Cardoso L, Takamiya N, de Melo E, de Jesus A, et al.
Int J Infect Dis . 2023 May; 133:85-88. PMID: 37182549
We report a refractory and relapsed visceral leishmaniasis case in a male child patient followed from 2016 to 2020, whose clinical isolates from multiple relapses were analyzed at the genome...
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Pilling O, Reis-Cunha J, Grace C, Berry A, Mitchell M, Yu J, et al.
PLoS Pathog . 2023 Mar; 19(3):e1011230. PMID: 36940219
In Brazil, Leishmania braziliensis is the main causative agent of the neglected tropical disease, cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL). CL presents on a spectrum of disease severity with a high rate of...
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Grace C, Carvalho K, Lima M, Costa Silva V, Reis-Cunha J, Brune M, et al.
mBio . 2022 Oct; 13(6):e0206822. PMID: 36222512
Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a potentially fatal disease caused mainly by Leishmania infantum in South America and Leishmania donovani in Asia and Africa. Disease outcomes have been associated with patient...
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Grace C, Forrester S, Costa Silva V, Carvalho K, Kilford H, Chew Y, et al.
Genome Biol Evol . 2021 Dec; 13(12). PMID: 34865011
The Leishmania donovani species complex is the causative agent of visceral leishmaniasis, which cause 20-40,000 fatalities a year. Here, we conduct a screen for balancing selection in this species complex....
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Sellers G, Jeffares D, Lawson B, Prior T, Lunt D
PLoS One . 2021 Dec; 16(12):e0253248. PMID: 34851967
Root-knot nematodes (RKN; genus Meloidogyne) are polyphagous plant pathogens of great economic importance to agriculturalists globally. These species are small, diverse, and can be challenging for accurate taxonomic identification. Many...
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Mourier T, de Alvarenga D, Kaushik A, Pina-Costa A, Douvropoulou O, Guan Q, et al.
BMC Biol . 2021 Oct; 19(1):219. PMID: 34592986
Background: Plasmodium simium, a malaria parasite of non-human primates (NHP), was recently shown to cause zoonotic infections in humans in Brazil. We sequenced the P. simium genome to investigate its...