Brazilian isolates of Trypanosoma cruzi from humans and triatomines classified into two lineages using mini-exon and ribosomal RNA sequences

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 807-811

  Fernandes, Octavio ^a,b   Souto, Ricardo P ^c   Castro, José A ^d   Pereira, José Borges ^a   Fernandes, Neide Carrara ^a   Junqueira, Angela C V ^a   Naiff, Roberto D ^d   Barrett, Toby V ^d   Degrave, Wim ^a   Zingales, Bianca ^c   Campbell, David A ^e   Coura, José R ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b Faculty of Education Universidad del Estado de Rio de Janeiro University Estácio de Sá UNESA   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CISTRON; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KARYOTYPE; PARASITE ISOLATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; RNA SEQUENCE; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

EID: 17444447660     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.1998.58.807     Document Type: Article

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