Trypanosoma cruzi: Optimization of polymerase chain reaction for detection in human blood

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 28-33

  Gomes, Mônica L ^a,b   Macedo, Andréa M ^a   Vago, Annamaria R ^a   Pena, Sérgio D J ^a   Galvão, Lúcia M C ^a   Chiari, Egler ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF MARINGÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOG; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KINETOPLAST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; PARASITEMIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; MAMMALIA; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0031902238     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1998.4191     Document Type: Article

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