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Biological and molecular characterization of a raccoon isolate of Trypanosoma cruzi from South Carolina.
The Journal of parasitology - 1 Dec 2002
Yabsley Michael J, Noblet Gayle Pittman
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Biological and molecular characteristics of a raccoon isolate of Trypanosoma cruzi (R36) were compared with those of a known virulent strain (Brazil). Included in the characterization were growth rate in liver infusion tryptose medium, infectivity for murine fibroblasts, intracellular amastigote replication and trypomastigote release rates, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) profiling of the mini-exon gene,...
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