Differentiation of Trypanosoma cruzi and Trypanosoma rangeli of Colombia using minicircle hybridization tests

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 265-270

  Botero, Adriana ^a   Ortiz, Sylvia ^b   Muñoz, Sergio ^b   Triana, Omar ^a   Solari, Aldo ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Minicircles of kDNA; PCR; RFLP analysis; Southern blotting; Trypanosoma cruzi; Trypanosoma rangeli

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; COLOMBIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA PROBE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR HYBRIDIZATION; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE ISOLATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHAGAS DISEASE; COLOMBIA; DNA, KINETOPLAST; DNA, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRIATOMINAE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMA RANGELI;

EID: 77957899114     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2010.06.020     Document Type: Article

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