Genomes of Leishmania tropica from Morocco

We performed a comparative genomics analysis on 14 novel genomes of L. tropica that were isolated from confirmed cases of CL in Morocco. We used the Genome Instability Pipeline (GIP) to assess the diversity between isolates and with respect to the reference genome and to evaluate the genetic heterogeneity between isolates by analyzing the differences in karyotype, gene copy number, and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs).