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SUBMITTER: Nogueira-Paiva NC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4567304 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nogueira-Paiva Nívia Carolina NC Vieira Paula Melo de Abreu PM Oliveri Larissa Maris Rezende LM Fonseca Kátia da Silva Kda S Pound-Lana Gwenaelle G de Oliveira Maykon Tavares MT de Lana Marta M Veloso Vanja Maria VM Reis Alexandre Barbosa AB Tafuri Washington Luiz WL Carneiro Cláudia Martins CM
PloS one 20150911 9
The present study aims at establishing whether the diversity in pathogenesis within a genetically diverse host population infected with a single polyclonal strain of Trypanosoma cruzi is due to selection of specific subpopulations within the strain. For this purpose we infected Swiss mice, a genetically diverse population, with the polyclonal strain of Trypanosoma cruzi Berenice-78 and characterized via LSSP-PCR the kinetoplast DNA of subpopulations isolated from blood samples collected from the ...[more]