Article
Biological characterization of Trypanosoma cruzi stocks from Chilean insect vectors.
Experimental parasitology - 1 Jul 1998
Solari A, Wallace A, Ortiz S, Venegas J, Sanchez G
Abstract excerpt
Fifty-seven Trypanosoma cruzi stocks isolated from Triatoma infestans and Triatoma spinolai of the five different geographic endemic areas of Chile were studied by schizodeme and molecular karyotype analysis. Four different genotypes are found in the sylvatic T. spinolai vector and five in the T....
Topics
- Animals
- Antibodies, Protozoan
- Chagas Disease
- Chile
- Chlorocebus aethiops
- DNA, Kinetoplast
- Disease Models, Animal
- Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field
- Female
- Genotype
- Immune Sera
- Insect Vectors
