Using museum collections to detect pathogens

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 356-357

  Pinto, C Miguel ^a,b,c   Baxter, B Dnate' ^b   Hanson, J Delton ^b   Méndez Harclerode, Francisca M ^b   Suchecki, John R ^b   Grijalva, Mario J ^c,d   Fulhorst, Charles F ^e   Bradley, Robert D ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL ECUADOR   (Ecuador)

^d OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

CHAGAS DISEASE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION CENTER; LETTER; NEOTOMA; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; TRIATOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; MUSEUMS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SIGMODONTINAE; TEXAS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 76149145017     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1602.090998     Document Type: Letter

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