Infection by trypanosomes in marsupials and rodents associated with human dwellings in Ecuador

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1251-1255

  Pinto, C Miguel ^a,b   Ocaña Mayorga, Sofía ^a   Lascano, Mauricio S ^a,c   Grijalva, Mario J ^a,c  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL ECUADOR   (Ecuador)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CHAGAS DISEASE; HEMOPARASITE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MARSUPIAL; PARASITE PREVALENCE; RODENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COTTON RAT; DIDELPHIS MARSUPIALIS; ECUADOR; MARSUPIAL; MICROSCOPIC ANATOMY; NONHUMAN; OPOSSUM; PARASITE ISOLATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RAT; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMA LEWISI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

ANIMALS; CHAGAS DISEASE; DIDELPHIS; ECUADOR; HOUSING; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; RATS; RODENT DISEASES; RURAL HEALTH; SIGMODONTINAE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMA LEWISI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

ECUADOR; SOUTH AMERICA;

AKODON OROPHILUS; ANIMALIA; DIDELPHIS MARSUPIALIS; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; MUS MUSCULUS; ORYZOMYS XANTHAEOLUS; PHILANDER OPOSSUM; PROECHIMYS DECUMANUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; RATTUS RATTUS; RODENTIA; SIGMODON PERUANUS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 33847004762     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-886R.1     Document Type: Article

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