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Photos taken during a study on visceral leishmaniasis (VL) patients in Ethiopia in 2015. (A) Microbiopsy type 2 (MB2) taken from the nose. (B) MB2 from the arm of a 5 year old child diagnosed with VL. (C) Close-up of a MB2 taken from a cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) lesion caused by Leishmania aethiopica (species identified by DNA sequencing of the Leishmania internal transcribed spacer 1 (ITS1) gene.) (D) Microbiopsy sample being taken from the nape of the neck of a child VL patient.
