A mini-exon multiplex polymerase chain reaction to distinguish the major groups of Tryopanosoma cruzi and T. rangeli in the Brazilian Amazon

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 97-99

  Fernandas, O ^a   Santos, S S ^a   Cupolillo, E ^a   Mendonca B ^a   Derre, R ^b   Junqueira, A C V ^a   Santos, L C ^a   Sturm, N R ^c   Naiff, R D ^d   Barret, T V ^d   Campbell, D A ^c   Coura, J R ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazonas State; American trypanosomiasis; Brazil; Chagas disease; Trypanosoma cruzi; Trypanosoma rangeli; Zymodemes

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE ISOMERASE; ISOCITRATE DEHYDROGENASE; LEUCINE; MALATE DEHYDROGENASE; MALATE DEHYDROGENASE (DECARBOXYLATING); PEPTIDASE; PHOSPHOGLUCOMUTASE; PROTOZOAL DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXON; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TANDEM REPEAT; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; XENODIAGNOSIS;

ANIMALIA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMA RANGELI;

EID: 18244390757     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(01)90350-5     Document Type: Article

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