Differential Diagnosis of Trypanosoma cruzi and T. rangeli Infection by PCR of Cysteine Proteinase Genes
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Differential diagnosis of Trypanosoma cruzi and T. rangeli infection by PCR of cysteine proteinase genes.
Trypanosoma cruzi is the causative parasite of Chagas' disease, while the closely related T. rangeli is non-pathogenic in humans. Restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs) of a portion of the cysteine proteinase gene were used to distinguish T. cruzi from T. rangeli. This procedure was very sensitive, with a single cell of either species being sufficient for the PCR. The sensitivity and...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases
سال: 1997
ISSN: 1884-569X,0387-5911
DOI: 10.11150/kansenshogakuzasshi1970.71.903