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Identification of Trypanosoma cruzi genotypes circulating in Chilean chagasic patients.
Experimental parasitology - 1 Apr 2001
Solari A, Campillay R, Ortíz S, Wallace A
Abstract excerpt
Parasite DNA amplified by PCR from blood of 73 chagasic children and adults of two endemic areas of Chile were studied by Southern blot and/or dot blot hybridization analysis with a panel of three minicircle probes corresponding to the parasite genotypes (clonets 19, 33 and 39). The hybridization pattern of the PCR positive samples identified clonets 39, 19/20, and 32/33 with frequencies of 0.84, 0.32 and 0.26,...
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