Trypanosoma cruzi: An analysis of the minicircle hypervariable regions diversity and its influence on strain typing

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 235-241

  Velazquez, M ^a   Diez, C N ^a   Mora, C ^a   Diosque, P ^b   Marcipar, I S ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL LITORAL   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SALTA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

deoxynucleotide triphosphate; dNTP; kDNA; kinetoplastid dideoxy nucleotide acid; Lineage; low stringency single specific primer polymerase chain reaction; LSSP PCR; mHVR; Minicircle; minicircle hypervariable regions; PCR; polimerase chain reaction; randomly amplified polymorphic DNA; RAPD; restriction fragment length polymorphism; RFLP; Strain; Trypanosoma cruzi; Typing

Indexed keywords

MINICIRCLE DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGIONS; DNA, KINETOPLAST; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; VARIATION (GENETICS);

KINETOPLASTIDA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 53049099864     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2008.07.016     Document Type: Article

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