Usefulness of the polymerase chain reaction for monitoring cure of mice infected with different Trypanosoma cruzi clonal genotypes following treatment with benznidazole

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 45-49

  Miyamoto, Claudia Tiemi ^a   Gomes, Mônica Lúcia ^a   Marangon, Aline Vansan ^a   de Araújo, Silvana Marques ^a   Bahia, Maria Terezinha ^b   Martins Filho, Olindo Assis ^c   de Lana, Marta ^b   de Ornelas Toledo, Max Jean ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF MARINGÁ   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF OURO PRETO   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

ALTA; anti live trypomastigote antibodies; benznidazole; BZ; Chagas disease; Cloned stocks; Cure control; deoxyribonucleic acid; DIS; DNA; ELISA; enzyme linked immunosorbent assay; FBE; fresh blood examination; HC; hemoculture; Murine model; NC; PCR; polymerase chain reaction; TC; treated and cured; treated dissociated; treated non cured; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

TOLAZOLINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA EXTRACTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENOTYPE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

ANIMALS; CHAGAS DISEASE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NITROIMIDAZOLES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRYPANOCIDAL AGENTS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE; MUS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 48649106297     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2008.04.018     Document Type: Article

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