Neighbor-Joining dendrogram based on p-distances of the <i>hsp</i>70 sequences determined in this study, aligned with those from Fraga <i>et al.</i>[9] as a reference set.

<p>The total alignment contains 1380 nucleotides. Bootstrap support of the branches was inferred from 2000 replicates, and is shown in percentages at the internodes when exceeding 70%. The tree is drawn according to the scale on the left, expressed as distance per nucleotide. Different species are depicted on the right, whereby species of the <i>L.</i> (<i>Leishmania</i>) subgenus are condensed. The tree was rooted on the branch leading to <i>L.</i> (<i>Viannia</i>). Isolates are indicated with their WHO code wherever possible, with accession numbers between brackets. Accessions starting with XM are derived from a contemporary annotation of full genome sequences, and are GenBank specific.