Trypanosoma cruzi lineages detected in congenitally infected infants and Triatoma infestans from the same disease-endemic region under entomologic surveillance in Paraguay

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 386-390

  Del Puerto, Florencia ^a   Sánchez, Zunilda ^a   Nara, Eva ^a   Meza, Graciela ^a   Paredes, Berta ^b   Ferreira, Elizabeth ^b   Russomando, Graciela ^a  

^a Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Salud Universidad Nacional de Asuncion   (Paraguay)

^b Servicio Nacional de Erradicación del Paludismo   (Paraguay)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZNIDAZOLE; KINETOPLAST DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; SATELLITE DNA;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHILD; CONGENITAL INFECTION; EXON; FECES ANALYSIS; GENE PROBE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HYBRIDIZATION; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARAGUAY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TRIATOMA INFESTANS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MALE; PARAGUAY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRIATOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

TRIATOMA INFESTANS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 77949781521     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2010.09-0006     Document Type: Article

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