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Molecular Identification of Trypanosoma cruzi I Tropism for Central Nervous System in Chagas Reactivation Due to AIDS
1 Feb 2008
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Trypanosoma cruzi lineages, microsatellite allelic polymorphism, and mithocondrial gene haplotypes were directly typified from peripheral blood and cerebrospinal fluid specimens of a Bolivian patient with Chagas disease with accompanying AIDS and central nervous system severe involvement. Of note, the patient's blood was infected by a mixture of T. cruzi I and T. cruzi IId/e polyclonal populations while the...
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