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Variability of kinetoplast DNA gene signatures of Trypanosoma cruzi II strains from patients with different clinical forms of Chagas' disease in Brazil.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Jun 2006
Lages-Silva Eliane, Ramírez Luis Eduardo, Pedrosa André Luiz, Crema Eduardo, da Cunha Galvão Lúcia Maria, Pena Sérgio Danilo Junho, Macedo Andrea Mara, Chiari Egler
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The clinical course of Chagas' disease varies widely among different patients and geographic regions. For reasons that are not completely understood but involve host and parasite factors, some patients never develop the disease while others present cardiac and/or gastrointestinal symptoms. Many studies have been conducted in order to correlate the genetic variability of the parasites with the clinical forms of...
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