Chagas cardiomyopathy manifestations and trypanosoma cruzi genotypes circulating in chronic chagasic patients

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Ramírez, Juan David ^a   Guhl, Felipe ^a   Rendón, Lina Maŕa ^a   Rosas, Fernando ^b   Marin Neto, Jose A ^c   Morillo, Carlos A ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

^b Cardiovascular Center   (Colombia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA 18S; SATELLITE DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; COLOMBIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXON; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIXED INFECTION; PARASITE PREVALENCE; TAXONOMIC RANK; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY;

CHAGAS CARDIOMYOPATHY; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLOMBIA; EXONS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 78649800717     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000899     Document Type: Article

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