Blood-sucking lice may disseminate Trypanosoma cruzi infection in baboons

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 271-276

  Argañaraz, Enrique R ^c   Hubbard, Gene B ^a   Ramos, Larissa A ^c   Ford, Allen L ^a   Nitz, Nadjar ^c   Leland, Michelle M ^a   Vandeberg, John L ^a   Teixeira, Antonio R L ^b  

^a SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Baboons; Lice; Papio hamadrias; Pedicinus obtusus; Trypanosoma cruzi infection

Indexed keywords

KINETOPLAST DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; DISEASE CARRIER; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LOUSE; MOUSE; PAPIO; PARASITOLOGY; PEDICULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; DISEASE VECTORS; DNA, KINETOPLAST; DNA, PROTOZOAN; LICE; LICE INFESTATIONS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PAPIO; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0035461166     PISSN: 00364665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0036-46652001000500007     Document Type: Article

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