Genotype and virulence correlation within Mexican stocks of Trypanosoma cruzi isolated from patients.

doi:10.1016/s0001-706x(98)00005-9

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Genotype and virulence correlation within Mexican stocks of Trypanosoma cruzi isolated from patients.

Acta tropica - 15 Jun 1998

Espinoza B, Vera-Cruz J M, González H, Ortega E, Hernández R

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Five Trypanosoma cruzi stocks were isolated from infected patients in the central state of Jalisco, Mexico. Parasites were isolated by direct inoculation of infected blood into BALB/c mice. The five stocks of T. cruzi were analyzed for in vitro growth, and for virulence and parasitic load in vivo...

Topics

Adult
Animals
Blotting, Southern
Chagas Disease
Child
DNA, Protozoan
DNA, Ribosomal
Female
Genotype
Humans
Male
Mexico
Mice
Mice, Inbred BALB C
Middle Aged
Parasitemia
Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
Trypanosoma cruzi

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