Trypanosoma cruzi I-III in southern Brazil causing individual and mixed infections in humans, sylvatic reservoirs and triatomines

Acta Tropica

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 167-172

  Abolis, Nilce Gomes ^a   Marques de Araújo, Silvana ^a   Toledo, Max Jean de Ornelas ^a   Fernandez, Maria Aparecida ^a   Gomes, Mônica Lúcia ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF MARINGÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

COII; DTUs; RRNA; Southern Brazil; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

PARASITE; POLYMORPHISM; RNA;

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; OPOSSUM; PARASITE VECTOR; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; TRIATOMINAE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; BRAZIL; CHAGAS DISEASE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COINFECTION; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; GENES, RRNA; HUMANS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPOSSUMS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, PROTOZOAN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRIATOMINAE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

BRAZIL; PARANA;

DIDELPHIDAE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 80054857133     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2011.08.001     Document Type: Article

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