PCR reveals significantly higher rates of Trypanosoma cruzi infection than microscopy in the Chagas vector, Triatoma infestans: High rates found in Chuquisaca, Bolivia

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Pizarro, Juan Carlos ^a,b   Lucero, David E ^a   Stevens, Lori ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b Sucre   (Bolivia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; AGAROSE; CYTOSINE; ETHIDIUM BROMIDE; GUANINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; THYMINE;

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; BOLIVIA; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DILUTION; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; NYMPH; PARASITE VECTOR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RURAL AREA; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECIES HABITAT; TRIATOMA INFESTANS; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CHAGAS DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EVALUATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRIATOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; BOLIVIA; CHAGAS DISEASE; ENDEMIC DISEASES; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MICROSCOPY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRIATOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 34547491412     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-7-66     Document Type: Article

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