Trypanosoma cruzi: Typing of genotype (sub)lineages in megacolon samples from bolivian patients

Acta Tropica

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 252-255

  Virreira, Myrna ^a   Serrano, Geovanka ^b   Maldonado, Luis ^b   Svoboda, Michal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSIDAD MAYOR DE SAN SIMÓN   (Bolivia)

Author keywords

Genotyping; Megacolon; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; PARASITE; PARASITIC DISEASE;

ARTICLE; BOLIVIA; CELL LINEAGE; CHAGAS DISEASE; DNA PROBE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MEGACOLON; NONHUMAN; SAMPLING; SOUTH AMERICA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; BOLIVIA; CHAGAS DISEASE; DNA PROBES; DNA, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; MEGACOLON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

BOLIVIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 33846588843     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2006.11.005     Document Type: Article

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