title: Epidemic visceral leishmaniasis in southern Sudan: identity and systematic position of the parasites from patients and vectors.
abstract: Twenty-five strains of Leishmania donovani isolated from humans and Phlebotomus orientalis in an epidemic area of southern Sudan were shown to belong to 3 very similar zymodemes: MON 18 (11 strains), MON 30 (1 strain) and MON 82 (13 strains). The 3 zymodemes are very closely related and seem to behave as a single population.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire d'Ecologie Médicale et Pathologie Parasitaire, Université de Montpellier 1, France.
authors.forename: R W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Ashford
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Seaman
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Schorscher
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Pratlong
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D006801:Humans; D007893:Leishmania donovani / Q000145:classification* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D007898:Leishmaniasis, Visceral / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000469:parasitology; D010691:Phlebotomus / Q000469:parasitology; D013397:Sudan / Q000453:epidemiology