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  • Title: Short report: Leishmania DNA in Phlebotomus and Sergentomyia species during a kala-azar epidemic.
    Author: Mukherjee S, Hassan MQ, Ghosh A, Ghosh KN, Bhattacharya A, Adhya S.
    Journal: Am J Trop Med Hyg; 1997 Oct; 57(4):423-5. PubMed ID: 9347957.
    Abstract:
    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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