Trypanosoma cruzi TcIII/Z3 genotype as agent of an outbreak of Chagas disease in the Brazilian Western Amazonia: Short Communication

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1049-1051

  Monteiro, Wuelton M ^a,b,c   Magalhães, Laylah K ^a,b   Santana Filho, Franklin S ^a,b   Borborema, Maurício ^a,b   Silveira, Henrique ^a,d   Barbosa, Maria Das Graças V ^a,b,e  

^a FUNDAÇÃO DE MEDICINA TROPICAL DR HEITOR VIEIRA DOURADO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE DO ESTADO DO AMAZONAS   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF AMAZONAS   (Brazil)

^d INSTITUTO DE HIGIENE E MEDICINA TROPICAL   (Portugal)

^e UNIVERSIDADE NILTON LINS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

acute Chagas disease; genotype; outbreak; Trypanossoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

BENZNIDAZOLE;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENOTYPE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PARASITIC DISEASE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SMEAR; BRAZIL; CHAGAS DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DNA EXTRACTION; EPIDEMIC; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MITOCHONDRIAL CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE SUBUNIT II GENE; MUTATOR GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE ISOLATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RIPARIAN ECOSYSTEM; TCIII GENE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; Z3 GENE;

ANIMALS; BRAZIL; CHAGAS DISEASE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EXONS; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

BRAZIL;

TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 77955387567     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2010.02577.x     Document Type: Article

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