[leish-l] Trypanosomatidae sp. "strain Eva"

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Dear all,
We are working on kinetoplastids from various bloodsucking insects. We have isolated a trypanosomatid strain from a biting midge. Its SSU rRNA sequence most closely resembles the sequence of "strain EVA"  (AF071866) "host=sandfly". Unfortunately, we were not able to find a publication about this organism or to locate the authors (Fu G, Rodriguez NM, Barker DC).
If anybody has any information about EVA or the authors, or has isolates of monoxenous kinteoplastids from sand flies, please let us know. Thanks in advance
Milena Svobodova & Jan Votypka
Department of Parasitology
Charles University
Prague