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Trypanosoma cruzi IV Causing Outbreaks of Acute Chagas Disease and Infections by Different Haplotypes in the Western Brazilian Amazonia

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2012

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Wuelton Marcelo Monteiro, Laylah Kelre Costa Magalhães, Amanda Regina Nichi Sá, Mônica Lúcia Gomes, Max Jean de Ornelas Toledo, L F Orángel Borges, Isa Pires, Jorge Augusto de Oliveira Guerra, Henrique Silveira, Maria das Graças Vale Barbosa
PLoS ONE

Abstract

DTU TcIV, rarely associated with human Chagas disease in other areas of the Amazon basin, is the major strain responsible for the human infections in the Western Brazilian Amazon, occurring in outbreaks as single or mixed infections by different haplotypes.

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