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Geographic distribution of Trypanosoma cruzi genotypes detected in chronic infected people from Argentina. Association with climatic variables and clinical manifestations of Chagas disease.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Mar 2020
Bizai María L, Romina Peralta, Antonela Simonetto, Olivera Lorena V, Arias Evelyn E, Josefina Dalla Costa, Silvia Manattini, Walter Sione, Diana Fabbro, Cristina Diez
Abstract excerpt
Chronic Chagas disease affects large number of people in Latin America where it remains one of the biggest public health problems. Trypanosoma cruzi is genetically divided into seven discrete typing units (DTUs), TcI-TcVI and Tcbat, and exhibits differential distribution across vectors, host and transmission cycles. Clinical manifestations (cardiac, digestive and / or neurological) vary according to the...
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