Published January 1, 2019 | Version v1
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Detection of Leishmania RNA virus 2 in Leishmania species from Turkey

  • 1. Ege Univ, Inst Sci, Div Biol, Dept Zool, Izmir, Turkey
  • 2. Univ Hlth Sci, Hlth Sci Inst, Dept Biotechnol, Istanbul, Turkey
  • 3. Ege Univ, Inst Sci, Div Biol, Dept Microbiol, Izmir, Turkey
  • 4. Manisa Celal Bayar Univ, Fac Med, Dept Parasitol, Manisa, Turkey
  • 5. Ege Univ, Fac Med, Dept Parasitol, Izmir, Turkey

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Background: Leishmania RNA virus (LRV) is a double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) virus infecting some Leishmania strains and triggering a destructive hyperinflammatory response in mammalian hosts in the New World. There is limited knowledge of the presence of this virus in Old World Leishmania species and its role in the outcome of the disease. We aimed to investigate the presence of LRV in Leishmania species/strains from Turkey.

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