kDNA gene signatures of Trypanosoma cruzi in blood and oesophageal mucosa from chronic chagasic patients

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 102, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1102-1107

  da Silva Manoel Caetano, Fernanda ^a   Carareto, Cláudia Márcia Aparecida ^a   Borim, Aldenis Albaneze ^b   Miyazaki, Kenji ^c   Silva, Ana Elizabete ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b FACULDADE DE MEDICINA DE SÃO JOSÉ DO RIO PRETO   (Brazil)

^c HOSPITAL DE BASE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Chagas disease; Genetic variability; kDNA minicircles; LSSP PCR; Megaesophagus; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS MUCOSA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; MALE; MEGACOLON; MEGAESOPHAGUS; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, KINETOPLAST; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ESOPHAGEAL ACHALASIA; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 53349143818     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2008.05.027     Document Type: Article

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