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A new genotype of Trypanosoma cruzi associated with bats evidenced by phylogenetic analyses using SSU rDNA, cytochrome b and Histone H2B genes and genotyping based on ITS1 rDNA.
Parasitology - 1 May 2009
Marcili A, Lima L, Cavazzana M, Junqueira A C V, Veludo H H, Maia Da Silva F, Campaner M, Paiva F, Nunes V L B, Teixeira M M G
Abstract excerpt
We characterized 15 Trypanosoma cruzi isolates from bats captured in the Amazon, Central and Southeast Brazilian regions. Phylogenetic relationships among T. cruzi lineages using SSU rDNA, cytochrome b, and Histone H2B genes positioned all Amazonian isolates into T. cruzi I (TCI). However, bat isolates from the other regions, which had been genotyped as T. cruzi II (TC II) by the traditional genotyping method...
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