Table 1

Leishmania expressing reporter gene whose capacity to be used in vitro for drug screening procedure has been determined
Species
 Reporter gene
 Expression
 Ref
L. donovani/L. donovaniR
 Firefly luciferase
 Episomal
 16
L. amazonensis
 Firefly luciferase
 Integration
 17
L. infantum/L. infantum RSbIII1
 Firefly luciferase
 Episomal
 14
L. donovani
 GFP
 Episomal
 7
L. donovani R2

10
L. amazonensis
 β-Lactamase
 Episomal
 12
L. major


1 in vitro selected trivalent antimony resistant L. infantum. 2 Field isolates of L. donovani resistant to pentavalent antimony.

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