Southern plains woodrats (Neotoma micropus) from Southern Texas are important reservoirs of two genotypes of trypanosoma cruzi and host of a putative novel trypanosoma species

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 22-30

  Charles, Roxanne A ^a   Kjos, Sonia ^b   Ellis, Angela E ^a   Barnes, John C ^c   Yabsley, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b MARSHFIELD CLINIC   (United States)

^c Southwest Texas Veterinary Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Rodents; Triatomes; Trypanosomes; Zoonosis; Zoonotic

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIBODY; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CARNIVORA; CONTROLLED STUDY; COTTON RAT; DISEASE CARRIER; GENOTYPE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MEPHITIS MEPHITIS; MOUSE; NEOTOMA; NEOTOMA MICROPUS; NONHUMAN; OTOSPERMOPHILUS VARIEGATUS; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS PECTORALIS LACEIANUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACCOON; RAT; RATTUS RATTUS; SCIURIDAE; SEROLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; SIGMODON HISPIDUS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CHAGAS DISEASE; DOG; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; OPOSSUM; PARASITOLOGY; RODENT; RODENT DISEASES; SIGMODONTINAE; SKUNK; TRANSMISSION; TRYPANOSOMA;

CANIS FAMILIARIS; DIDELPHIDAE; MEPHITIDAE; MEPHITIS; MEPHITIS MEPHITIS; MUS MUSCULUS; NEOTOMA; NEOTOMA MICROPUS; PEROMYSCUS PECTORALIS; PEROMYSCUS PECTORALIS LACEIANUS; PROCYON; PROCYON LOTOR; RATTUS RATTUS; RODENTIA; SIGMODON; SIGMODON HISPIDUS; SPERMOPHILUS VARIEGATUS; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CHAGAS DISEASE; DIDELPHIS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DOGS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MEPHITIDAE; MICE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RACCOONS; RATS; RODENT DISEASES; RODENTIA; SCIURIDAE; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SIGMODONTINAE; TEXAS; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 84872176412     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: 15577759     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2011.0817     Document Type: Article

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