Trypanosoma cruzi congenital transmission in wild bats

Acta Tropica

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 78-80

  Añez, Néstor ^a   Crisante, Gladys ^a   Soriano, Pascual J ^a  

^a FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Bats; Congenital transmission; Trypanosoma cruzi; Venezuela

Indexed keywords

BAT; BIOASSAY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PROTOZOAN; RURAL AREA; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; WILD POPULATION;

ARTICLE; BAT; CHAGAS DISEASE; DNA DETERMINATION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHODNIUS; RHODNIUS PROLIXUS; RURAL AREA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; TRYPOMASTIGOTE; VENEZUELA; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

SOUTH AMERICA; VENEZUELA;

MOLOSSUS MOLOSSUS; RHODNIUS PROLIXUS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 56949085691     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2008.08.009     Document Type: Article

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