Identification of Trypanosoma cruzi sublineages by the simple method of single-stranded conformation DNA polymorphism (SSCP)

Parasitology Research

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1023-1031

  Higo, Hiroo ^a   Miura, Sachio ^b   Agatsuma, Takeshi ^c   Mimori, Tatsuyuki ^d   Yanagi, Tetsuo ^e   Iwagami, Moritoshi ^c   De Arias, A Rojas ^f   Matta, Vivian ^g   Hirayama, Kenji ^e   Takeuchi, Tsutomu ^b   Tada, Isao ^a   Himeno, Kunisuke ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KOCHI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^d KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Salud Universidad Nacional de Asuncion   (Paraguay)

^g Universidad Nacional de San Carlos   (Guatemala)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUZIPAIN; PROTOZOAL DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 18S;

ARTICLE; CENTRAL AMERICA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE ISOLATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; SOUTH AMERICA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; CHAGAS DISEASE; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EXONS; GENES, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; TRIATOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 33847626333     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-006-0376-8     Document Type: Article

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