Trypanosoma cruzi: A considerable phylogenetic divergence indicates that the agent of chagas disease is indigenous to the native fauna of the United States

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 73-79

  Barnabé, Christian ^a   Yaeger, Robert ^b   Pung, Oscar ^c   Tibayrenc, Michel ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b Georgia ^*  (United States)

^c GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CHAGAS DISEASE; ENZYME ELECTRODE; FAUNA; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; SAMPLING; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

MAMMALIA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0035676034     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.2001.4651     Document Type: Article

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