Trypanosoma cruzi: Multiplex PCR to detect and classify strains according to groups I and II

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 123, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 283-291

  Liarte, Daniel B ^a   Murta, Silvane M F ^a   Steindel, Mario ^b   Romanha, Alvaro J ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

deoxyribonucleic acid; DNA; kDNA; kinetoplast deoxyribonucleic acid; Molecular diagnosis; Multiplex PCR; PBS; PCR; phosphate buffered saline; polymerase chain reaction; random amplification of polymorphic DNA; RAPD; rDNA; restriction fragment length polymorphism; RFLP; ribosomal DNA; Satellite DNA; T cruzi II; T. cruzi group; T. cruzi I; Triatoma infestans; Triatomine; Trypanosoma cruzi; Trypanosoma cruzi group I; Trypanosoma cruzi group II; Z1; Z2, Z3, zymodemes 1, 2, and 3

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; FECES ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MOUSE; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRIATOMA INFESTANS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHAGAS DISEASE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, SATELLITE; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

MUS; TRIATOMA INFESTANS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 65549134102     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2008.12.005     Document Type: Article

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