Trypanosoma cruzi: Study of the distribution of two widespread clonal genotypes in Bolivian Triatoma infestans vectors shows a high frequency of mixed infections

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 275-282

  Bosseno, Marie France ^a   Telleria, Jenny ^b   Vargas, Fernando ^b   Yaksic, Nina ^b   Noireau, François ^a   Morin, Annie ^c   Brenière, Simone Frédérique ^a  

^a Institut de recherche pour le developpement Bolivia   (Bolivia)

^b UNIVERSIDAD MAYOR DE SAN ANDRÉS   (Bolivia)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BOLIVIA; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRIATOMA INFESTANS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALIA; TRIATOMA INFESTANS; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0030219695     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1996.0075     Document Type: Article

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