Between a bug and a hard place: Trypanosoma cruzi genetic diversity and the clinical outcomes of Chagas disease

LA Messenger, MA Miles, C Bern - Expert review of anti-infective …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Over the last 30 years, concomitant with successful transnational disease control programs
across Latin America, Chagas disease has expanded from a neglected, endemic parasitic …

Genetic diversity of Trypanosoma cruzi in bats, and multilocus phylogenetic and phylogeographical analyses supporting Tcbat as an independent DTU (discrete …

L Lima, O Espinosa-Álvarez, PA Ortiz, JA Trejo-Varón… - Acta tropica, 2015 - Elsevier
Trypanosoma cruzi is a complex of phenotypically and genetically diverse isolates
distributed in six discrete typing units (DTUs) designated as TcI–TcVI. Five years ago, T …

Multiplex Real-Time PCR Assay Using TaqMan Probes for the Identification of Trypanosoma cruzi DTUs in Biological and Clinical Samples

CI Cura, T Duffy, RH Lucero, M Bisio… - PLoS neglected …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Background Trypanosoma cruzi has been classified into six Discrete Typing Units (DTUs),
designated as TcI–TcVI. In order to effectively use this standardized nomenclature, a …

Bats, Trypanosomes, and Triatomines in Ecuador: New Insights into the Diversity, Transmission, and Origins of Trypanosoma cruzi and Chagas Disease

CM Pinto, S Ocaña-Mayorga, EE Tapia, SE Lobos… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
The generalist parasite Trypanosoma cruzi has two phylogenetic lineages associated
almost exclusively with bats—Trypanosoma cruzi Tcbat and the subspecies T. c. marinkellei …

Bats, trypanosomes, and triatomines in Ecuador: new insights into the diversity, transmission, and origins of Trypanosoma cruzi and chagas disease

MJ Grijalva Cobo, SB Ocaña Mayorga, CM Pinto Báez… - 2015 - pucedspace.puce.edu.ec
The generalist parasite Trypanosoma cruzi has two phylogenetic lineages associated
almost exclusively with bats—Trypanosoma cruzi Tcbat and the subspecies T. c. marinkellei …

[图书][B] Evolution of bat-trypanosome associations and the origins of Chagas Disease

CM Pinto - 2015 - search.proquest.com
Trypanosoma cruzi is a genetically diverse parasite that causes Chagas disease, one of the
most important zoonoses in the Americas. This generalist parasite of mammals belongs to a …