A mini-exon multiplex polymerase chain reaction to distinguish the major groups of Trypanosoma cruzi and T. rangeli in the Brazilian Amazon

Abstract

0. Fernandesi*3, S. S. Santos’, E. CupoUlo’, B. Mendonga’, R. Derre3, A. C. V. Junqueira’, L. C. Santos’, N. R. Sturm4, R. l3. NaifP, T. V. Barret’, Il. A. Campbell4 and J. R. Coura’ ‘Department of Tropical Medicine and 2Department of Imw~nunology, Instiwo OswaEdo Cruz, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 3DepaPtment of Pathology, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 4Department of Microbiology, InwunoZogy and MolecuZar Genetics, Uv 51nstituto National de Pesquisas da AmazBnia, INPA, Manaus, Brazil Keywords:Americantrypanosomiasis, Chagasdisease,