Molecular karyotype and schizodeme analyses of Trypanosoma cruzi stocks from Chilean triatomines

Parasitology

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 41-46

  Venegas, J ^a   Ortiz, S ^a   Munoz, S ^a   Solari, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Karyotype; Schizodemes; T. infestans; T. spinolai; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CHILE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; KARYOTYPE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE VECTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHILE; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; DNA, KINETOPLAST; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENOTYPE; INSECT VECTORS; KARYOTYPING; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; TRIATOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

TRIATOMA INFESTANS; TRIATOMA SPINOLAI; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0030738938     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182097001066     Document Type: Article

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