Human Mixed Infections of Leishmania spp. and Leishmania-Trypanosoma cruzi in a Sub Andean Bolivian Area: Identification by Polymerase Chain Reaction/hybridization and Isoenzyme

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 255-264

  Bastrenta, B ^a   Mita, N ^c   Buitrago, R ^c   Vargas, F ^c   Flores, M ^c   Machane, M ^c   Yacsik, N ^c   Torrez, M ^c   Le Pont, F ^b   Breniere F ^d  

^a Genet Molec Parasites Vecteurs

^b Institut de recherche pour le developpement Bolivia   (Bolivia)

^c UNIVERSIDAD MAYOR DE SAN ANDRÉS   (Bolivia)

^d INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Chagas disease; Isoenzyme characterization; Leishmaniasis; Mixed infection; Polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

DNA; ISOENZYME; PROTOZOAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; BOLIVIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HYBRIDIZATION; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; LEISHMANIASIS; MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE ISOLATION; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ANIMAL; CHAGAS DISEASE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

ANIMALS; BOLIVIA; CHAGAS DISEASE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; ISOENZYMES; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0038266285     PISSN: 00740276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762003000200015     Document Type: Article

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