Open AccessCongenital Chagas disease in Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia, is dominated by Trypanosoma cruzi lineage V
Author(s) -
Leny Sanchez,
Louisa A. Messenger,
Tapan Bhattacharyya,
Robert H. Gilman,
Holger Mayta,
Rony Colanzi,
Ricardo Bozo,
Manuela Verástegui,
Michael A. Miles,
Caryn Bern
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
transactions of the royal society of tropical medicine and hygiene
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.725
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1878-3503
pISSN - 0035-9203
DOI - 10.1093/trstmh/trab089
Subject(s) - trypanosoma cruzi , chagas disease , parasite hosting , biology , virology , genotyping , typing , serotype , genotype , parasitemia , immunology , plasmodium falciparum , microbiology and biotechnology , genetics , malaria , gene , world wide web , computer science
This study identified Trypanosoma cruzi discrete typing units (DTUs) in maternal and infant specimens collected from two hospitals in Bolivia, using conventional genotyping and DTU-specific serotyping.