TcBat a bat-exclusive lineage of Trypanosoma cruzi in the Panama Canal Zone, with comments on its classification and the use of the 18S rRNA gene for lineage identification

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1328-1332

  Pinto, C Miguel ^a,b,c   Kalko, Elisabeth K V ^d,e   Cottontail, Iain ^f   Wellinghausen, Nele ^d,g   Cottontail, Veronika M ^d  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL ECUADOR   (Ecuador)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^e SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^f Kbo Isar Amper Klinikum Taufkirchen (Vils)   (Germany)

^g Gaertner and Collegues Laboratory   (Germany)

Author keywords

Artibeus jamaicensis; Bat; Chagas disease; Chiroptera; Missing data; Reservoir host

Indexed keywords

RNA 18S;

ARTICLE; BAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTB GENE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENOTYPE; H2B GENE; MONOPHYLY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI MARINKELLE; TRYPANOSOMA DIONISII;

ANIMALS; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHIROPTERA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENETIC MARKERS; PANAMA CANAL ZONE; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ARTIBEUS; ARTIBEUS JAMAICENSIS; CHIROPTERA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 84861954219     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: 15677257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2012.04.013     Document Type: Article

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