Abstract
Among the Leishmania genus are the causative agents of leishmaniasis, a medical important disease that presents a large spectrum of clinical presentations. The protozoa nuclear genome has 70Mb distributed in 34-36 chromosomes. Telomeres of L. amazonensis, one of the main etiologic agents of Tegumentar leishmaniasis in the Americas, is composed of the conserved repetitive sequence 5'-TTAGG…