Publications
| field application of polymerase chain reaction diagnosis and strain typing of trypanosoma cruzi in bolivian triatomines. | a new approach for direct identification and characterization of trypanosoma cruzi stocks in biological samples was tested for field applicability on an extensive sample of feces collected from triatomine vectors from four different species found in bolivia. the first step of the technique is polymerase chain reaction (pcr) amplification of the hypervariable region of kinetoplast dna minicircles of t. cruzi parasites. in this report, 345 fecal samples were analyzed and the pcr results were compa ... | 1995 | 7677221 |
| chagas disease in an area of recent occupation in cochabamba, bolivia. | a descriptive, entomological and seroepidemiological study on chagas disease was conducted in a place of recent occupation on the outskirts of cochabamba, bolivia: avaroa/primer de mayo (population:3,000), where the socio-economic level is low and no control measures have been made available. | 1999 | 10456995 |