Evaluation of a pan-Leishmania SL-RNA qPCR assay for parasite detection in laboratory-reared and field-collected sand flies and reservoir hosts.
M. Pareyn, R. Hendrickx, N. Girma, S. Hendrickx, L. Van Bockstal, N. Van Houtte, S. Shibru, L. Maes, H. Leirs, G. Caljon
This study evaluates a pan-Leishmania SL-RNA qPCR assay for detecting Leishmania in sand flies and hyrax tissue samples, showing it is as effective as kDNA assays and can detect low parasite equivalents.
bioRxiv · Jan 8, 2020Microbiology