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[Genetic variability of Trypanosoma cruzi in blood and organs of infected mice determined by LSSP-PCR].
Biomedica : revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud - 1 Mar 2005
Mejía Ana María, Triana Omar
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BACKGROUND: Chagas' disease, caused by Trypanosoma cruzi, has a variable clinical course, ranging from asymptomatic infection to chronic disease. Trypanosoma cruzi has a clonal population structure, although infecting strains are often multiclonal. Genetic variability of T. cruzi may be one of the determinant factors in differential tissue tropism and consequently of the clinical forms of the disease. OBJECTIVE:...
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