Characterization of Trypanosoma cruzi isolated from humans, vectors, and animal reservoirs following an outbreak of acute human Chagas disease in Santa Catarina State, Brazil

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 25-32

  Steindel, Mário ^a   Kramer Pacheco, Letícia ^a   Scholl, Daniele ^a   Soares, Marcos ^a   de Moraes, Milene Hoehr ^a   Eger, Iriane ^a,b   Kosmann, Cecília ^a   Sincero, Thais Cristine Marques ^a   Stoco, Patrícia Hermes ^a   Murta, Silvane Maria Fonseca ^c   de Carvalho Pinto, Carlos José ^a   Grisard, Edmundo Carlos ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE DO VALE DO ITAJAÍ   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Human Chagas disease; MLEE; Oral infection; PCR; Strain characterization; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

BENZNIDAZOL; BENZNIDAZOLE; PHOSPHOGLUCOMUTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BRAZIL; CHAGAS DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIDELPHIS ALBIVENTRIS; DIDELPHIS AURITA; ENZYME ELECTROPHORESIS; HUMAN; MORTALITY; OPOSSUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; SUGARCANE; TRIATOMA; TRIATOMA TIBIAMACULATA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; BRAZIL; CHAGAS DISEASE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DISEASE VECTORS; ELECTROPHORESIS, STARCH GEL; ENZYMES; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; GENES, RRNA; HUMANS; OPOSSUMS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TRIATOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 36849032283     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2007.07.016     Document Type: Article

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