| first report of leishmania tropica from a classical focus of l. major in north-sinai, egypt. | cutaneous leishmaniasis (cl) is prevalent in the egyptian sinai peninsula and previous research has consistently documented the etiologic agent to be leishmania major. we report the first isolation of leishmania tropica from human cases of cl in a northern sinai community bordering palestine. parasite culturing, real-time polymerase chain reaction (pcr), gene sequencing, and restriction fragment length polymorphism (rflp) analyses indicate cl cases in this community were caused by either l. majo ... | 2009 | 19635872 |