PCR-based screening and lineage identification of Trypanosoma cruzi directly from faecal samples of triatomine bugs from northwestern Argentina

Parasitology

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 57-65

  Marcet, P L ^b   Duffy, T ^a   Cardinal, M V ^b   Burgos, J M ^a   Lauricella, M A ^c   Levin, M J ^a   Kitron, U ^d   Gurtler R E ^b   Schijman, A G ^a,e  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN INGENIERÍA GENÉTICA Y BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^c Instituto Nacional de Diagnostico e Investigacion de la Enfermedad de Chagas Dr Mario Fatala Chaben   (Argentina)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^e Dto de Quimica Biologica   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Chagas disease; Lineage; PCR; Triatoma garciabesi; Triatoma guasayana; Triatoma infestans; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL ISOLATION; CELL LINEAGE; CHAGAS DISEASE; FECES ANALYSIS; GENOME; HUMAN; MARKER GENE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; SAMPLE; TRIATOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

KINETOPLASTIDA; TRIATOMA; TRIATOMA GARCIABESI; TRIATOMA GUASAYANA; TRIATOMA INFESTANS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 30144434686     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182005008772     Document Type: Article

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