Trypanosoma cruzi isoenzyme variability in Ecuador: First observation of zymodeme III genotypes in chronic chagasic patients

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 378-382

  Garzon E A ^a,b   Barnabe C ^a   Cordova X ^c   Bowen, C ^c   Paredes, W ^c   Gomez E ^b   Ouaissi, A ^a   Tibayrenc, Michel ^a   Guevara, A G ^b,c  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE SANTIAGO DE GUAYAQUIL   (Ecuador)

^c HOSPITAL VOZANDES   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

Chagas disease; Ecuador; Isoenzyme profiles; Triatoma dimidiata; Trypanosoma cruzi; Zymodemes

Indexed keywords

ISOENZYME; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECUADOR; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INSECT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAMMAL; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTILOCUS ENZYME ELECTROPHORESIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE ISOLATION; PHYLOGENY; SAMPLING; SEASHORE; TRIATOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; WILD SPECIES; ANIMAL; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED;

ANIMALIA; INSECTA; MAMMALIA; PROTOZOA; TRIATOMA; TRIATOMA DIMIDIATA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; CHAGAS DISEASE; ECUADOR; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; ISOENZYMES; MIDDLE AGED; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0036653305     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(02)90367-6     Document Type: Article

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