The sylvatic transmission cycle of Trypanosoma cruzi in a rural area in the humid Chaco of Argentina

Acta Tropica

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 79-86

  Alvarado Otegui, J A ^a   Ceballos, L A ^a   Orozco, M M ^a   Enriquez, G F ^a   Cardinal, M V ^a   Cura, C ^b   Schijman, A G ^b   Kitron, U ^c   Gurtler R E ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN INGENIERÍA GENÉTICA Y BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR   (Argentina)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dasypus novemcinctus; Didelphis albiventris; Discrete typing unit; Molecular epidemiology; Reservoir; Trypanosoma cruzi; Vector

Indexed keywords

DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE VECTOR; DNA; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MAMMAL; PARASITIC DISEASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RURAL AREA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HABITAT; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PANSTRONGYLUS GENICULATUS; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RURAL AREA; SYLVATIC TRANSMISSION CYCLE; TRIATOMA SORBIDA; TRIATOMINAE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; XENODIAGNOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ARGENTINA; CHAGAS DISEASE; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DISEASE VECTORS; DNA, KINETOPLAST; DNA, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RURAL POPULATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

GRAN CHACO;

ANIMALIA; ARMADILLO; DASYPODIDAE; DASYPUS NOVEMCINCTUS; DIDELPHIDAE; DIDELPHIS ALBIVENTRIS; FELIDAE; LEPUS; MAMMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; PANSTRONGYLUS GENICULATUS; PROCYON CANCRIVORUS; RODENTIA; TRIATOMA SORDIDA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 84864766656     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2012.06.010     Document Type: Article

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