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. 2006 Dec 1;6(2):198–210. doi: 10.1128/EC.00282-06

TABLE 1.

Twenty six nagt variants within known species complexes of Leishmania recognized by analyses of 193 independent isolatesa

nagt genotypesb WHO Codec Diseased nagt genotypesb WHO Codec Diseased
L. amazonensis/mexicana HOM/TN/90/FMH CL
        complex (5)e     13 Variant 5 (I/II) (1) HOM/CN/99/Gansu-Wangg VL
    1 L. amazonensis (1) RAT/BR/72/LV78g CL
    2 Variant 6 (1) HOM/CN/75/Kashi-BTO13 VL L. turanica/gerbilli
    3 Variant 17 (1) HOM/CN/97/Gansu-LUO VL         complex (21)
    4 L. mexicana (2) HOM/CO/94/1182g CL     14 L. turanica (15) RHO/CN/99/KMA2g CL
HOM/MX/84/ISTE GS CL RHO/CN/92/Qi Daig CL
L. donovani/infantum RHO/IR/04?/IR14 CL
        complex (91)     15 L. gerbilli (6) RHO/CN/62/20g CL
    5 L. infantum (63) HOM/TR/00/OG-VLg VL IMON/CN/97/KMP3 N/A
HOM/TR/03/Adana #7 CL
HOM/GR/70?/GH5 CL L. tropica complex (48)
CANL/IR/04/IR2B VL?     16 L. tropica (I/II) (22) HOM/TR/95/MACg CL
HOM/FR/80/189 VL? HOM/SY/00/Am CL
HOM/ES/81/260 VL? HOM/AZ/74/K27 CL
HOM/CN/80/801 VL HOM/IQ/73/LRC L32 CL
HOM/TN/90/DREP13 CL HOM/IR/94/X54 CL
HOM/BR/82/BA-2, C1 VL HOM/SA/91/WR2044 VL (asymptomatic)
    6 Variant 2 (15) HOM/CN/50?/Bman VL HOM/JO/90-91?/Jh33 CL
HOM/SD/03?/VL2 VL HOM/SU/60/BTO11 CL
    7 Variant 4 (1) HOM/KE/84/NLB323g VL HOM/KE/81/NLB 030Bg VL
    8 Variant 7 (7) HOM/CN/93/KXG-LIUg CL HOM/IN/76/UR6g VL
IWUI/CN/87/KXG65 N/A     17 L. tropica (I/I) (9) HOM/TR/04/EP94 CL
HOM/CN/89/Shandong VL HOM/IR/03/IR1 HIV-CL/VL
    9 L. donovani (5) HOM/IN/96/JD VL CAN/IR/02/IR3C VL ?
HOM/LK/03/H9 CL     18 Variant 2 (III/III) (7) IROS/NA/87/8688g N/A
L. major complex (23) HOM/NA/84/K1 CL
    10 L. major (9) HOM/IL/80/Friedling CL     19 Variant 2-1 (IV/IV) (1) HOM/KE/84/NLB297Ag ?
HOM/TR/96/DK CL     20 Variant 6 (VII/VII) (6) HOM/TR/03/EP82g CL
HOM/EG/95/Dr. B CL     21 Variant 7 (V/V) (1) HOM/IQ/91/WR1095g VL (asymptomatic)
HOM/IR/??/IR173 CL     22 Variant 14 (IV/VI) (2) HOM/KE/85/NLB545g ?
HOM/EQ/87/G-09 CL L. braziliensis/panamensis (4)
    11 Variant 1 (6) HOM/TR/94/HKg CL     23 L. braziliensis (I/I) (1)f HOM/BR/75/M2904g CL
HOM/IR/02/Iran 9 CL     24 Variant 4 (I/II) (1) HOM/BR/75/M2903 CL
HOM/IN/05?/RMP-240 PKDL     25 L. panamensis (2) HOM/PA/71/LS94 CL
    12 Variant 4 (I/I) (7) HOM/TR/93/HA VL HOM/CO/00?/140 CL
HOM/TR/93/SYg CL L. enriettii (1)
HOM/IR/64/Iran8 CL     26 enriettii (1) CAV/BR/45/enriettiig CL
RHO/SD/02?/CL1 CL
a

Listed are 65 representatives of 77 sequenced.

b

Variant 1 to 17, the number of nucleotide substitutions against an arbitrarily selected reference sequence in each species complex. I to VII, different alleles in L. major, L. tropica, and L. braziliensis complex. Numbers in parentheses represent the actual number of isolates.

c

Host/reservoirs: CAN, dog (Canis familiaris); CANL, wolf (C. lupus pallipos); CAV, guinea pig (Cavia sp.); HOM, Homo sapiens; IMON, sand fly (Phlebotomus mongolensis); IROS, sand fly (P. rossi); IWUI, sand fly (P. major wui); RAT, Rattus rattus; RHO, great gerbil (Rhobomys opimus). Countries of origin: AZ, Azerbaijan; BR, Brazil; CN, China; CO, Colombia; EG, Egypt; EQ, Ecuador; ES, Spain; FR, France; GR, Greece; IL, Israel; IN, India; IQ, Iraq; IR, Iran; JO, Jordan; KE, Kenya; LK, Sri Lanka; MX, Mexico; NA, Namibia; PA, Panama; SA, Saudi Arabia; SD, Sudan; SU, Soviet Union; SY, Syria; TN, Tunisia; TR, Turkey. 45 to 05, year of isolation. ?, information not provided in writing by the donors.

d

PKDL, post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis; N/A, not applicable.

e

Numbers of isolates examined by RFLP analyses and/or sequencing.

f

Sequence obtained from GeneDB.

g

Strains used for sequencing the fc gene and other single-copy genes. fc gene sequences were also obtained from L. donovani (HOM/IN/00/IN0041J) and L. infantum variant 2 (HON/CN/90/901), which are not listed.