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Molecular Identification of Trypanosma cruzi discrete Typing Units in end-Stage Chronic Chagas Heart Disease and Reactivation after Heart Transplantation
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2010-09Registro en:
Burgos, Juan Miguel; Diez, Mirta; Vigliano, Carlos; Bisio, Margarita María Catalina; Risso, Marikena Guadalupe; et al.; Molecular Identification of Trypanosma cruzi discrete Typing Units in end-Stage Chronic Chagas Heart Disease and Reactivation after Heart Transplantation; University of Chicago Press; Clinical Infectious Diseases; 51; 5; 9-2010; 485-495
1058-4838
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Autor
Burgos, Juan Miguel
Diez, Mirta
Vigliano, Carlos
Bisio, Margarita María Catalina
Risso, Marikena Guadalupe
Duffi, Tomas
Cura, Carolina Inés
Brusés, Bettina Laura
Favaloro, Liliana Ethel
Leguizamon, María Susana
Lucero, Raúl Horacio
Laguens, Rubén
Levin, Mariano Jorge
Favaloro, Roberto René
Schijman, Alejandro Gabriel
Resumen
One hundred years after the discovery of Chagas disease, it remains a major neglected tropical disease. Chronic Chagas heart disease is the most severe manifestation. Heart trasplantation is the proper treatment for end-stage heart failure. T. cruzi strains cluster into 6 discrete typing units assosiated with different geographical distribution, transmission cycles and varying disease symptoms.In the southern cone of South America, T. cruzi II, V and VI popuations appear to be assosiated with Chagas disease and T. cruzi I with sylvatic cycles.