Detection of Trypanosoma cruzi and Trypanosoma rangeli infection in triatomine vectors by amplification of the histone H2A/SIRE and the sno-RNA-Cl1 genes

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 23-30

  Pavia, Paula Ximena ^a   Vallejo, Gustavo Adolfo ^b   Montilla, Marleny ^c   Nicholls, Rubén Santiago ^c   Puerta, Concepción Judith ^a  

^a Laboratorio 113   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DEL TOLIMA   (Colombia)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD   (Colombia)

Author keywords

PCR, histone H2A; Rhodnius colombiensis; Rhodnius prolixus; SIRE; sno RNA Cl1; Trypanosoma cruzi; Trypanosoma rangeli

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H2A; SMALL NUCLEOLAR RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; GENE AMPLIFICATION; NONHUMAN; PARASITOSIS; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHODNIUS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TRIATOMA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; HISTONES; INSECT VECTORS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHODNIUS; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, SMALL NUCLEOLAR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 33947510869     PISSN: 00364665     EISSN: 16789946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0036-46652007000100005     Document Type: Article

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