Severe digestive pathology associated with chronic Chaga's disease in Ecuador: report of two cases

DNA extracted from peripheral blood of two Ecuadorian patients showing severe digestive pathology was amplified by the polymerase chain reaction using a Trypanosoma cruzi specific oligonucleotide primers derived from the primary sequence of a cDNA encoding for a 24 kDa excretory/secretory protein. T...

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Main Authors: Angel G. Guevara, José W. Eras, Marcelo Recalde, Luis Vinueza, Philip J. Cooper, Ali Ouaissi, Ronald H. Guderian
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) 1997-10-01
Series:Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
Subjects:
PCR
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0037-86821997000500007