Parasite Persistence in Treated Chagasic Patients Revealed by Xenodiagnosis and Polymerase Chain Reaction

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Volumn 96, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 823-826

  Britto, Constança ^a   Silveira, Celeste ^b   Cardoso, Maria Angelica ^a   Marques, Patricia ^a   Luquetti, Alejandro ^c   Macêdo, Vanize ^b   Fernandes, Octavio ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Chagas disease; Kinetoplast DNA; PCR; Treatment; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANTITRYPANOSOMAL AGENT; KINETOPLAST DNA;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; XENODIAGNOSIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHRONIC DISEASE; DNA, KINETOPLAST; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRYPANOCIDAL AGENTS; XENODIAGNOSIS;

EID: 0035434832     PISSN: 00740276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762001000600014     Document Type: Article

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