Exposure to mixed asymptomatic infections with Trypanosoma cruzi, Leishmania braziliensis and Leishmania chagasi in the human population of the greater Amazon

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 629-636

  Mendes, Daniella G ^a   Lauria Pires, Liana ^a   Nitz, Nadjar ^a   Lozzi, Silene P ^a   Nascimento, Rubens J ^a   Monteiro, Pedro S ^a   Rebelo, Manuel M ^b   Rosa, Ana De Cássia ^a   Santana, Jaime M ^a   Teixeira, Antonio R L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MARANHÃO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Kinetoplastid protozoa infections; Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis; Leishmania chagasi; Leishmania infantum; PCR and Southern hybridizations; Trypanosoma cruzi; Western blot

Indexed keywords

CROSS REACTING ANTIBODY; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

BIOASSAY; DISEASE SPREAD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FLAGELLATE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; LEISHMANIASIS; RAINFOREST; RISK FACTOR; TROPICAL FOREST; VILLAGE;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GENOTYPE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFECTION RISK; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA CHAGASI; LEISHMANIASIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; PHENOTYPE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSYCHODIDAE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRIATOMINAE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BRAZIL; CHAGAS DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIASIS; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; PHENOTYPE; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RURAL HEALTH; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SEROLOGIC TESTS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

BRAZIL; MARANHAO; PACO DO LUMIAR; SOUTH AMERICA;

KINETOPLASTIDA; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI CHAGASI; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); PROTOZOA; PSYCHODIDAE; TRIATOMINAE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 34247279726     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2007.01831.x     Document Type: Article

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