Direct molecular identification of Trypanosoma cruzi Discrete Typing Units in domestic and peridomestic Triatoma infestans and Triatoma sordida from the Argentine Chaco

Parasitology

Volumn 139, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1570-1579

  Maffey, L ^a   Cardinal, M V ^a   Ordonez Krasnowski P C ^a   Lanati, L A ^a   Lauricella, M A ^b   Schijman, A G ^c   Gurtler R E ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b Instituto Nacional de Diagnostico e Investigacion de la Enfermedad de Chagas Dr Mario Fatala Chaben   (Argentina)

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

Author keywords

Chagas disease; Discrete Typing Units; PCR; Triatoma infestans; Triatoma sordida; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA;

AMPOULE; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIELD STUDY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OPOSSUM; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM; RURAL AREA; TRIATOMA; TRIATOMA INFESTANS; TRIATOMA SORDIDA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ARGENTINA; DOGS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRIATOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 84867751632     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182012000856     Document Type: Article

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