Publications

development and evaluation of a duplex taqman qpcr assay for detection and quantification of trypanosoma cruzi infection in domestic and sylvatic reservoir hosts.	a question of epidemiological relevance in chagas disease studies is to understand trypanosoma cruzi transmission cycles and trace the origins of (re)emerging cases in areas under vector or disease surveillance. conventional parasitological methods lack sensitivity whereas molecular approaches can fill in this gap, provided that an adequate sample can be collected and processed and a nucleic acid amplification method can be developed and standardized. we developed a duplex qpcr assay for accurat ...	2019	31783770
the role of sigmodontine rodents as sylvatic hosts of trypanosoma cruzi in the argentinean chaco.	the role of rodents in the sylvatic transmission of trypanosoma cruzi has seldom been investigated using parasitological and molecular methods. we assessed the occurrence of t. cruzi in wild small rodents from pampa del indio, in the argentinean chaco, and identified the taxonomic status of positive rodents by sequencing a fragment of cytochrome b gene (cytb) and performing blast searches and phylogenetic analyses. a total of 176 sigmodontinae rodents was captured in six surveys using 5425 trap- ...	2014	24394448