Research Article
Analysis of the IGS rRNA Region and Applicability for Leishmania (V.) braziliensis Characterization
Table 5
BLASTn analysis of Leishmania species sequenced from 28S F and 18S R primers.
| | Species | BLAST sequence per primer | | 28S F (cov%/id%) | Species with greater similarity | 18S R (cov%/id%) | Species with greater similarity |
| | Leishmania braziliensis | 100/99 | Leishmania peruviana | 98/99 | L. panamensis | | Leishmania guyanensis | 86/99 | Leishmania panamensis | 22/99 | L. panamensis | | Leishmania shawi | 99/97 | L. peruviana | 95/87 | L. braziliensis | | Leishmania naiffi | 99/96 | L. peruviana | 99/89 | L. peruviana | | Leishmania lainsoni | 98/97 | L. panamensis | 45/74 | L. braziliensis | | Leishmania amazonensis | 100/97 | L. amazonensis | 100/99 | L. amazonensis | | Leishmania mexicana | — | — | 100/99 | L. mexicana | | Leishmania tropica | — | — | 100/96 | L. donovani | | Leishmania donovani | — | — | 63/100 | L. donovani |
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Legend: F—forward; R—reverse; BLASTn—Basic Local Alignment Search Tool nucleotide; cov%—coverage percentage; id%—identity percentage.
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