Trypanosoma cruzi Infection in Neotropical Wild Carnivores (Mammalia: Carnivora): At the Top of the T. cruzi Transmission Chain

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Rocha, Fabiana Lopes ^a,b,c   Roque, André Luiz Rodrigues ^a   de Lima, Juliane Saab ^d   Cheida, Carolina Carvalho ^e   Lemos, Frederico Gemesio ^c,f   de Azevedo, Fernanda Cavalcanti ^c   Arrais, Ricardo Corassa ^c,g   Bilac, Daniele ^a   Herrera, Heitor Miraglia ^h   Mourão, Guilherme ⁱ   Jansen, Ana Maria ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b Instituto Brasileiro para Medicina da Conservação Tríade   (Brazil)

^c PCMC   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MATO GROSSO DO SUL   (Brazil)

^e Instituto de Pesquisas Cananéia IPeC   (Brazil)

^f FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^h UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DOM BOSCO   (Brazil)

ⁱ EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARBOREAL SPECIES; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CARNIVORE DISEASE; CHAGAS DISEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EXON; GENOTYPE; INFECTION; NEOTROPICS; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PROCYONIDAE; RACCOON; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEROLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMA RANGELI;

ANIMALS; BRAZIL; CHAGAS DISEASE; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, KINETOPLAST; EXONS; FOOD CHAIN; GENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PROCYONIDAE; TROPICAL CLIMATE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

CARNIVORA; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; NASUA; NASUA NASUA; PROCYON; PROCYON CANCRIVORUS; PROCYONIDAE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMA RANGELI;

EID: 84879815591     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0067463     Document Type: Article

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