Trypanosoma cruzi genome project: Biological characteristics and molecular typing of clone CL Brener

Acta Tropica

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 159-173

  Zingales, B ^a   Pereira, M E S ^a   Oliveira, R P ^a   Almeida, K A ^a   Umezawa, E S ^a   Souto, R P ^a   Vargas, N ^a   Cano, M I ^a   Da Silveira, J F ^a   Nehme, N S ^a   Morel, C M ^a   Brener, Z ^a   Macedo, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Biological characteristics; Genome project; Molecular typing; Reference organism; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CLONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENOME; NONHUMAN; PARASITE CULTIVATION; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0030759114     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0001-706X(97)00088-0     Document Type: Article

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