Further support for a Palaearctic origin of Leishmania.

S. Kerr; R. Merkelz; C. Mackinnon

DOI:10.1590/S0074-02762000000400022

Corpus ID: 21292572

Further support for a Palaearctic origin of Leishmania.

@article{Kerr2000FurtherSF,
  title={Further support for a Palaearctic origin of Leishmania.},
  author={S. Kerr and R. Merkelz and C. Mackinnon},
  journal={Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz},
  year={2000},
  volume={95 4},
  pages={
          579-81
        }
}

S. Kerr, R. Merkelz, C. Mackinnon

Published 2000

Biology, Medicine

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

The fossil record and systematics of murid rodents, reservoirs of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis in the Palaearctic, Oriental, African, Nearctic and Neotropical, strongly support a Palaearctic origin of Leishmania. The fossil record and systematics of phlebotomine sand flies reinforce this idea. Interpretations of molecular data that place the origin of Leishmania in the Neotropical are inconsistent with the natural histories of reservoirs and vectors. The evolutionary pattern of New World… CONTINUE READING

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