Follow-up of experimental chronic Chagas' disease in dogs: use of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) compared with parasitological and serological methods.

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Published in Acta Trop on January 01, 2002

Authors

F M G Araújo1, M T Bahia, N M Magalhães, O A Martins-Filho, V M Veloso, C M Carneiro, W L Tafuri, M Lana

Author Affiliations

1: Núcleo de Pesquisas em Ciências Biológicas (NUPEB), Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Campus Universitário, Morro do Cruzeiro, Brazil.

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