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Trypanosoma cruzi genotyping supports a common source of infection in a school-related oral outbreak of acute Chagas disease in Venezuela.
Epidemiology and infection - 1 Jan 2014
Díaz-Bello Z, Thomas M C, López M C, Zavala-Jaspe R, Noya O, DE Noya B Alarcón, Abate T
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Trypanosoma cruzi I, a discrete typing unit (DTU) found in human infections in Venezuela and other countries of the northern region of South America and in Central America, has been recently classified into five intra-DTU genotypes (Ia, Ib, Ic, Id, Ie) based on sequence polymorphisms found in the...
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