Use of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and hybridization assays to detect trypanosoma cruzi in chronic chagasic patients treated with itraconazole or allopurinol

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 253-257

  Zulantay, Inés ^a   Honores, Patricia ^a   Solari, Aldo ^a   Apt, Werner ^a   Ortiz, Sylvia ^a   Osuna, Antonio ^b   Rojas, Antonio ^a   López, Bernardo ^a   Sánchez, Gittith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Allopurinol; Chronic Chagas disease; Hybridization assays; Itraconazole; Polymerase chain reaction (PCR); Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

ALLOPURINOL; DNA FRAGMENT; ITRACONAZOLE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA PROBE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; HYBRIDIZATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; XENODIAGNOSIS;

ADULT; ALLOPURINOL; ANIMALS; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITRACONAZOLE; MALE; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 1942424753     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2003.10.011     Document Type: Article

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