Trypanosoma cruzi I genotype among isolates from patients with chronic Chagas disease followed at the Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases (FIOCRUZ, Brazil)

• Published in: Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
• Main Authors: Tatiana da Silva Fonseca de Oliveira, Barbara Neves dos Santos, Tainah Silva Galdino, Alejandro Marcel Hasslocher-Moreno, Otilio Machado Pereira Bastos, Maria Auxiliadora de Sousa
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT)
• Subjects: Trypanosoma cruzi genotypes; Chronic Chagas disease; TcI; Paraíba State; Brazil; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Arctic; Evandro
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/0037-8682-0406-2016; https://doaj.org/article/6e920758489c4f608ac2f6a046c6b7e0

ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION: Trypanosoma cruzi is the etiologic agent of Chagas disease in humans, mainly in Latin America. Trypanosome stocks were isolated by hemoculture from patients followed at Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases (FIOCRUZ) and studied using different approaches. M...