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Volume 21, Number 5—May 2015
Letter

Outbreak of Leishmania braziliensis Cutaneous Leishmaniasis, Saül, French Guiana

Guillaume Martin-Blondel, Xavier Iriart, Fouad El Baidouri, Stéphane Simon, Deborah Mills, Magalie Demar, Thierry Pistone, Thomas Le Taillandier, Denis Malvy, Jean-Pierre Gangneux, Pierre Couppie, Wendy Munckhof, Bruno Marchou, Christophe Ravel, and Antoine BerryComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Toulouse University Hospital, Toulouse, France (G. Martin-Blondel, X. Iriart, T. Le Taillandier, B. Marchou, A. Berry); INSERM UMR1043, Toulouse, France (G. Martin-Blondel, X. Iriart, A. Berry); French Reference Centre on Leishmaniasis, Montpellier, France (F. El Baidouri, C. Ravel); University of the French West Indies and Guiana, Cayenne, France (S. Simon); Travel Medicine Alliance, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia (D. Mills); Cayenne Hospital, Cayenne (M. Demar, P. Couppie); Bordeaux University Hospital, Bordeaux, France (T. Pistone, D. Malvy); Rennes University Hospital, Rennes, France (J.-P. Gangneux); University of Queensland, Brisbane (W. Munckhof)

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Data display network showing the genetic diversity of 32 Leishmania braziliensis (according to the multilocus enzyme electrophoresis–based taxonomy) compared with 5 strains from clinical samples (boldface) obtained from visitors to the Amazonian forest region of French Guiana. The strains were compared at 4 genomic loci (locus 03.0980, 10.0560, 31.0280 and 31.2610) as previously described (3). The concatenated nucleotide sequences (2,610 bp) were duplicated to avoid information loss due to heter

Figure. Data display network showing the genetic diversity of 32 Leishmania braziliensis (according to the multilocus enzyme electrophoresis–based taxonomy) compared with 5 strains from clinical samples (boldface) obtained from visitors to the Amazonian forest region of French Guiana. The strains were compared at 4 genomic loci (locus 03.0980, 10.0560, 31.0280 and 31.2610) as previously described (3). The concatenated nucleotide sequences (2,610 bp) were duplicated to avoid information loss due to heterozygous positions (e.g., A to AA or Y to CT). Neighbor-Net analysis was performed with SplitsTree version 4.11.3 (http://splitstree.org/) by using p-distances and equal edge lengths (4). Two L. guyanensis strains were used as an outgroup. The inset represents the genetic distance between L. guyanensis and L. braziliensis. Scale bar indicates evolutionary distance.

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