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Species identification was performed by internal transcribed spacer one (ITS1)-PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) and high-resolution melting (HRM) analysis of the 7SL RNA gene. Real-time PCR on blood was positive in 6 of 13 (46.2%) tested gundis.\n                    <jats:italic>Leishmania tropica<\/jats:italic>\n                    was identified in five infected gundis and\n                    <jats:italic>Leishmania major<\/jats:italic>\n                    in one specimen. Alignments of the ITS-1 DNA sequences and 7S-HRM curves analysis indicated that similar genotypes were present in humans, a sandfly, and gundis from the same region suggesting a potential role of this rodent as reservoir host of\n                    <jats:italic>L. tropica<\/jats:italic>\n                    in southeast Tunisia.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.4269\/ajtmh.2012.11-0572","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2012,6,4]],"date-time":"2012-06-04T16:16:06Z","timestamp":1338826566000},"page":"962-965","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":49,"title":["Natural Infection of North African Gundi (Ctenodactylus gundi) by Leishmania tropica in the Focus of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis, Southeast Tunisia"],"prefix":"10.4269","volume":"86","author":[{"given":"Nadia","family":"Bousslimi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Soumaya","family":"Ben-Ayed","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Im\u00e8ne","family":"Ben-Abda","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Karim","family":"Aoun","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"A\u00efda","family":"Bouratbine","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"2795","reference":[{"key":"R1","series-title":"Int J Parasitol","first-page":"237","article-title":"Microsatellite analysis reveals genetic structure of Leishmania tropica","volume":"36","author":"Schwenkenbecher","year":"2006"},{"key":"R2","series-title":"World Health Organ Tech Rep Ser","first-page":"1","article-title":"The leishmaniasis. 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