Trypanosoma cruzi nuclear DNA and its correlation with the parasite lifecycle

Emerging Chagas Disease

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 70-82

  Campbell, David A ^a   Sturm, Nancy R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.2174/978160805041310901010070     Document Type: Chapter

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