TABLE 2.

List of Leishmania species tested by the 4 centers and the gold-standard method used^a

Panel description	No. of isolates tested (method)
	Montpellier	Cayenne	Barcelona	Marseille	Total
L. adleri	1 (MLEE)				1
L. aethiopica	2 (MLEE)				2
L. amazonensis		1 (RFLP)	1 (hsp70 and rpoIILS)		2
L. archibaldi	1 (MLEE)				1
L. braziliensis	6 (MLEE), 2 (rpoIILS)	4 (rpoIILS)	7 (hsp70 and rpoIILS)	1 (MLEE)	20
L. deanei	1 (MLEE)				1
L. donovani	3 (MLEE)		4 (hsp70 and rpoIILS)		7
L. enriettii	1 (MLEE)				1
L. gerbilli	1 (MLEE)				1
L. guyanensis	3 (MLEE), 51 (rpoIILS)	15 (rpoIILS), 1 (RFLP)	1 (hsp70 and rpoIILS)	1 (MLEE)	72
L. gymnodactyli	1 (rpoIILS)				1
L. infantum	1 (MLEE)		26 (hsp70 and rpoIILS)	47 (MLEE)	74
L. killicki				3 (MLEE)	3
L. lainsoni	3 (MLEE), 1 (rpoIILS)				4
L. major	3 (MLEE), 3 (rpoIILS)		4 (hsp70 and rpoIILS)	7 (MLEE)	17
L. mexicana	4 (MLEE)		1 (hsp70 and rpoIILS)		5
L. naiffi	1 (rpoIIILS)	1 (RFLP)			2
L. panamensis			1 (hsp70 and rpoIILS)	1 (MLEE)	2
L. peruviana	4 (MLEE)			1 (MLEE)	5
L. pifanoi	1 (MLEE)			1 (MLEE)	2
L. tropica	2 (MLEE), 1 (rpoIILS)		2 (hsp70 and rpoIILS)	1 (MLEE)	6
L. turanica	1 (MLEE)			1 (MLEE)	2
Trypanosoma brucei	2				2
Herpetomonas	2				2
Crithidia	2				2
Endotrypanum	1				1
Bacteria	10 (16S rRNA)				10
Fungi	20 (ITS2)				20
Total	135	22	47	64	268

^aITS2, internal transcribed spacer 2.