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Deep sequencing of the Trypanosoma cruzi GP63 surface proteases reveals diversity and diversifying selection among chronic and congenital Chagas disease patients.
PLoS neglected tropical diseases - 1 Apr 2015
Llewellyn Martin S, Messenger Louisa A, Luquetti Alejandro O, Garcia Lineth, Torrico Faustino, Tavares Suelene B N, Cheaib Bachar, Derome Nicolas, Delepine Marc, Baulard Céline, Deleuze Jean-Francois, Sauer Sascha, Miles Michael A
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Chagas disease results from infection with the diploid protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi. T. cruzi is highly genetically diverse, and multiclonal infections in individual hosts are common, but little studied. In this study, we explore T. cruzi infection multiclonality in the contex...
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