Genetic diversity of Colombian sylvatic Trypanosoma cruzi isolates revealed by the ribosomal DNA

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 877-880

  Cuervo, Patricia ^b   Cupolillo, Elisa ^a   Segura, Iris ^b   Saravia, Nancy ^b   Fernandes, Octavio ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b CENTRO INTERNACIONAL DE ENTRENAMIENTO E INVESTIGACIONES MÉDICAS CIDEIM   (Colombia)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Colombia; Internal transcribed spacers; Mini exon gene; Ribosomal DNA; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COLOMBIA; DISEASE CARRIER; GENE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; COLOMBIA; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENETIC MARKERS; INSECT VECTORS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0036726081     PISSN: 00740276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762002000600023     Document Type: Article

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