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Trypanosoma cruzi: a considerable phylogenetic divergence indicates that the agent of Chagas disease is indigenous to the native fauna of the United States.
Experimental parasitology - 1 Oct 2001
Barnabé C, Yaeger R, Pung O, Tibayrenc M
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Thirty U.S. Trypanosoma cruzi stocks isolated mainly from wild mammals were characterized by multilocus enzyme electrophoresis at 22 genetic loci and random amplification of polymorphic DNA for 10 primers. Two main phylogenetic clusters, separated by large genetic distances, were discriminated by both methods, corresponding, respectively, to the formerly described zymodemes I and III. Two stocks isolated from...
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