The identification by isoenzyme patterns of two distinct strain-groups of trypanosoma cruzi, circulating independently in a rural area of brazil

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 1977, Pages 217-225

  Miles, M A ^a   Toye, P J ^b   Oswald, Sarah C ^a   Godfrey, D G ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE ISOMERASE; ISOENZYME; MALATE DEHYDROGENASE (DECARBOXYLATING); PHOSPHOGLUCOMUTASE;

IN VITRO STUDY; MICROORGANISM; THEORETICAL STUDY; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMAL; BRAZIL; CHAGAS DISEASE; ELECTROPHORESIS, STARCH GEL; HUMAN; ISOENZYMES; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0017727673     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: 18783503     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0035-9203(77)90012-8     Document Type: Article

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