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The molecular epidemiology and phylogeography of <i>Trypanosoma cruzi</i> and parallel research on <i>Leishmania</i>: looking back and to the future
20 Aug 2009
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Trypanosoma cruzi is the protozoan agent of Chagas disease, and the most important parasitic disease in Latin America. Protozoa of the genus Leishmania are global agents of visceral and cutaneous leishmaniasis, fatal and disfiguring diseases. In the 1970s multilocus enzyme electrophoresis demonstrated that T. cruzi is a heterogeneous complex. Six zymodemes were described, corresponding with currently recognized...
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