Differential detection of Blastocrithidia triatomae and Trypanosoma cruzi by amplification of 24sα ribosomal RNA genes in faeces of sylvatic triatomine species from rural northwestern Argentina

Acta Tropica

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 50-54

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

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

^b Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales   (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)

Author keywords

24s ribosomal RNA genes; Blastocrithidia triatomae; Chagas disease; Triatoma garciabesi; Triatoma guasayana; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

DNA 18S; RIBOSOME DNA;

FECAL PELLET; FLAGELLATE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INOCULATION; INSECT; MICROSCOPY; PHYLOGENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; RODENT; RURAL AREA;

AMPLICON; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BLASTOCRITHIDIA TRIATOMAE; BLOOD CULTURE; CRITHIDIA FASCICULATA; DISEASE CARRIER; DNA SEQUENCE; FECES; FLAGELLATE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HEART; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOMOGENATE; INOCULATION; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NEIGHBOR JOINING METHOD; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; RNA GENE; RURAL AREA; SAMPLE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TISSUE CULTURE; TRIATOMA; TRIATOMA GARCIABESI; TRIATOMA GUASAYANA; TRIATOMA INFESTANS; TRIATOMINAE; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; XENODIAGNOSIS;

ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, KINETOPLAST; FECES; INSECT VECTORS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RURAL POPULATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRIATOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMATINA; XENODIAGNOSIS;

ARGENTINA; SOUTH AMERICA;

BLASTOCRITHIDIA TRIATOMIAE; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); TRIATOMA GARCIABESI; TRIATOMA GUASAYANA; TRIATOMA INFESTANS; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 33748747779     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2006.06.010     Document Type: Article

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