Genetic structure of Trypanosoma cruzi in Colombia revealed by a High-throughput Nuclear Multilocus Sequence Typing (nMLST) approach

BMC Genetics

Volumn 14, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Ramírez, Juan D ^a   Tapia Calle, Gabriela ^a   Guhl, Felipe ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Chagas disease; Clonality; Disease ecology; Genotypes; Sexuality; Transmission dynamics

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; SODIUM CARBONATE;

ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CHAGAS DISEASE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLOMBIA; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HISTORY; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HUMAN; MAMMALIAN GENETICS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NATURAL POPULATION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; RESERVOIR; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ALLELES; CHAGAS DISEASE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLOMBIA; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, HELMINTH; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 84884971329     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-14-96     Document Type: Article

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