Use of polymerase chain reaction to diagnose the fifth reported US case of autochthonous transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi, in Tennessee, 1998

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 181, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 395-399

  Herwaldt, Barbara L ^a   Grijalva, Mario J ^a,d   Newsome, Anthony L ^b   McGhee, Charles R ^b   Powell, Malcolm R ^a   Nemec, Dewey G ^c   Steurer, Francis J ^a   Eberhard, Mark L ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; CHAGAS DISEASE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INSECT VECTORS; INTESTINES; MALE; PARASITEMIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TENNESSEE; TRIATOMA;

EID: 0033955396     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/315212     Document Type: Article

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