Genetic relationships between Trypanosoma cruzi strains isolated from chronic chagasic patients in southern Brazil as revealed by RAPD and SSR-PCR analysis

Acta Tropica

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 99-109

  Gomes, Mônica L ^a,c   MacEdo, Andréa M ^b   Pena, Sérgio D J ^b   Chiari, Egler ^a  

^a Egler Chiari Lab Biol Do T   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF MARINGÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Chagas' disease; RAPD; SSR PCR; Strains; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; CHAGAS DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0031882482     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0001-706X(97)00122-8     Document Type: Article

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