Table 1. Leishmania zymodemes used for the preparation of antigenic crude extracts.

Strain designation	Species	Zymodeme	Cell stage
Argentinean strains
MHOM/AR/02/OLO1	L. (V.) braz	KMS1	Amastigote, promastigote
MHOM/AR/02/CFO5	L. (V.) braz	KMS2	Promastigote
MHOM/AR/99/JDM1	L. (V.) guy	KMS4	Promastigote
Reference strains
MHOM/BR/75/M2904	L. (V.) braz	KMS7	Promastigote
MHOM/BR/73/M2269	L. (L.) amaz	KMS6	Promastigote

L. (V.) braz: Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis; L. (V.) guy: L. (V.) guyanensis; L. (L.) amaz: L. (Leishmania) amazonensis.