Short report: Infection rates of Triatoma protracta (Uhler) with Trypanosoma cruzi in Southern California and molecular identification of trypanosomes

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1020-1022

  Hwang, Wei Song ^a   Zhang, Guanyang ^a   Maslov, Dmitri ^a   Weirauch, Christiane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; INFECTION RATE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRIATOMA; TRIATOMA PROTRACTA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE CARRIER; GENETICS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY;

TRIATOMA PROTRACTA; TRIATOMINAE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 18S;

ANIMALS; CALIFORNIA; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; INSECT VECTORS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; TRIATOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 79952052304     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2010.10-0167     Document Type: Article

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