Ocurrence of co-infection by Leishmania (Leishmania) chagasi and Trypanosoma (Trypanozoon) evansi in a dog in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Volumn 100, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 739-741

  Mouriz Savani, Elisa San Martin ^a   Brandão Nunes, Vania Lúcia ^b   Bianchi Galati, Eunice Aparecida ^c   Castilho, Tiago Moreno ^c   De Araujo, Fernando Shiroma ^b   Novaes Ilha, Iêda Maria ^b   De Oliveira Camargo, Maria Cecília Gibrail ^a   Nicoletti D'Auria, Sandra Regina ^a   Floeter Winter, Lucile Maria ^c  

^a Laboratorio de Zoonoses e Doencas Transmitidas Por Vetores da Vigilancia em Saude   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE ANHANGUERA UNIDERP   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazil; Epidemiology; Natural reservoirs; rDNA based polymerase chain reaction; Trypanosomatid identification

Indexed keywords

CANIS FAMILIARIS; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI CHAGASI; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA EVANSI; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

PROTOZOAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CASE REPORT; DOG; DOG DISEASE; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; PARASITOLOGY; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

ANIMALS; BRAZIL; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

EID: 31544483624     PISSN: 00740276     EISSN: 16788060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0074-02762005000700011     Document Type: Article

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