Detection of parasite DNA in Chagas' heart disease

The Lancet

Volumn 346, Issue 8986, 1995, Pages 1370-1371

  Brandariz, Silvia ^a,b,c   Schijman, Alejandro ^b,c   Vigliano, Carlos ^b,c   Arteman, Pablo ^b,c   Viotti, Rodolfo ^b,c   Beldjord, Cherif ^b,c   Jorge Levin, Mariano ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN INGENIERÍA GENÉTICA Y BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR   (Argentina)

^b Hospital Eva Peron   (Argentina)

^c Laboratoire de Biochimie Génétique Hôpital Cochin ^*  (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSS REACTING ANTIBODY; PARASITE ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; CASE REPORT; CHAGAS DISEASE; DNA DETERMINATION; ELECTROPHORESIS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0028786135     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(95)92388-8     Document Type: Letter

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4. Amplification of a Trypanosoma cruzi DNA sequence from inflammatory lesions in human chagasic cardiomyopathy
5. Sensitive detection and schizodeme classification of Trypanosoma cruzi cells by amplification of kinetoplastid minicircle DNA sequence: use in diagnosis of Chagas' disease