Trypanosoma rangeli: Discrimination from Trypanosoma cruzi based on a variable domain from the large subunit ribosomal RNA gene

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 306-314

  Souto, Ricardo P ^a   Vargas, Nancy ^a   Zingales, Bianca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Crithidia fasciculata; Divergent domains; Leishmania (L.) amazonensis; Leishmania (L.) chagasi; Leishmania (V.) braziliensis; Rhodnius brethesi; Rhodnius prolixus; Ribosomal RNA genes; Trypanoplasma borreli; Trypanosoma brucei; Trypanosoma cruzi; Trypanosoma rangeli; Trypanosomatid

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; DNA FLANKING REGION; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; GENE STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0032799745     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1998.4380     Document Type: Article

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