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Presence of Trypanosoma cruzi in pregnant women and typing of lineages in congenital cases.
Acta tropica - 1 Dec 2012
Ortiz Sylvia, Zulantay Inés, Solari Aldo, Bisio Margarita, Schijman Alejandro, Carlier Yves, Apt Werner
Abstract excerpt
The objective of this study was to determine the presence of Trypanosoma cruzi in blood samples of mothers with chronic Chagas disease and their newborn by conventional PCR targeted to minicircle kinetoplastidic DNA (kDNA), and to determine the lineages in mother/newborn pairs of the congenital cases by hybridization assays with probes belonging to the TcII, TcI and TcV Discrete Typing Units (DTU). In 63 (57.2%)...
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