Molecular Diagnosis of Chagas Disease in Colombia: Parasitic Loads and Discrete Typing Units in Patients from Acute and Chronic Phases

Trypanosoma cruzi DTU TcII presents higher blood parasitism than DTU TcI in an experimental model of mixed infection

(2015) Helioswilton Sales-Campos et al.   ACTA PARASITOLOGICA

Genetic diversity of Trypanosoma cruzi in bats, and multilocus phylogenetic and phylogeographical analyses supporting Tcbat as an independent DTU (discrete typing unit)

(2015) Luciana Lima et al.   ACTA TROPICA

Between a bug and a hard place:Trypanosoma cruzigenetic diversity and the clinical outcomes of Chagas disease

(2015) Louisa A Messenger et al.   Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy

Comparative study of the biological properties of Trypanosoma cruzi I genotypes in a murine experimental model

(2015) Lissa Cruz et al.   INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Analytical Validation of Quantitative Real-Time PCR Methods for Quantification of Trypanosoma cruzi DNA in Blood Samples from Chagas Disease Patients

(2015) Juan Carlos Ramírez et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTICS

Retrospective distribution of Trypanosoma cruzi I genotypes in Colombia

(2015) Cielo M León et al.   MEMORIAS DO INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ

Randomized Trial of Benznidazole for Chronic Chagas’ Cardiomyopathy

(2015) Carlos A. Morillo et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Chagas’ Disease

(2015) Caryn Bern   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Usefulness of real time PCR to quantify parasite load in serum samples from chronic Chagas disease patients

(2015) Myllena F Melo et al.   Parasites & Vectors

Low Frequency of Circulating CD8+ T Stem Cell Memory Cells in Chronic Chagasic Patients with Severe Forms of the Disease

(2015) Jose Mateus et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Follow-up of an Asymptomatic Chagas Disease Population of Children after Treatment with Nifurtimox (Lampit) in a Sylvatic Endemic Transmission Area of Colombia

(2015) Fiorella Bianchi et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Investigación de vectores y reservorios en brote de Chagas agudo por posible transmisión oral en Aguachica, Cesar, Colombia

(2014) Hugo Soto et al.   Cadernos de Saude Publica

First report of a family outbreak of Chagas disease in French Guiana and posttreatment follow-up

(2014) Denis Blanchet et al.   INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Chagas disease (Trypanosoma cruzi) and HIV co-infection in Colombia

(2014) Carolina Hernández et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Sample size estimation in diagnostic test studies of biomedical informatics

(2014) Karimollah Hajian-Tilaki   JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS

Randomized Trial of Posaconazole and Benznidazole for Chronic Chagas' Disease

(2014) Israel Molina et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Genetic structure of Trypanosoma cruzi in Colombia revealed by a High-throughput Nuclear Multilocus Sequence Typing (nMLST) approach

(2013) Juan Ramírez et al.   BMC GENETICS

Retrospective molecular integrated epidemiology of Chagas disease in Colombia

(2013) Felipe Guhl et al.   INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Trypanosome species in neo-tropical bats: Biological, evolutionary and epidemiological implications

(2013) Juan David Ramírez et al.   INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION

The identification of two Trypanosoma cruzi I genotypes from domestic and sylvatic transmission cycles in Colombia based on a single polymerase chain reaction amplification of the spliced-leader intergenic region

(2013) Lina Marcela Villa et al.   MEMORIAS DO INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ

Molecular Epidemiology of Human Oral Chagas Disease Outbreaks in Colombia

(2013) Juan David Ramírez et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Analytical Performance of a Multiplex Real-Time PCR Assay Using TaqMan Probes for Quantification of Trypanosoma cruzi Satellite DNA in Blood Samples

(2013) Tomas Duffy et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Towards the establishment of a consensus real-time qPCR to monitor Trypanosoma cruzi parasitemia in patients with chronic Chagas disease cardiomyopathy: A substudy from the BENEFIT trial

(2012) Otacilio C. Moreira et al.   ACTA TROPICA

Oral Transmission of Chagas Disease

(2012) M. A. Shikanai-Yasuda et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Natural and emergent Trypanosoma cruzi I genotypes revealed by mitochondrial (Cytb) and nuclear (SSU rDNA) genetic markers

(2012) Juan David Ramírez et al.   EXPERIMENTAL PARASITOLOGY

Contemporary cryptic sexuality inTrypanosoma cruzi

(2012) JUAN DAVID RAMÍREZ et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

North American import? Charting the origins of an enigmatic Trypanosoma cruzi domestic genotype

(2012) Federico A Zumaya-Estrada et al.   Parasites & Vectors

A Systematic Review of High Quality Diagnostic Tests for Chagas Disease

(2012) Anna M. Afonso et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Trypanosoma cruzi I diversity: Towards the need of genetic subdivision?

(2011) Felipe Guhl et al.   ACTA TROPICA

The revised Trypanosoma cruzi subspecific nomenclature: Rationale, epidemiological relevance and research applications

(2011) Bianca Zingales et al.   INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION

International Study to Evaluate PCR Methods for Detection of Trypanosoma cruzi DNA in Blood Samples from Chagas Disease Patients

(2011) Alejandro G. Schijman et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Molecular Identification ofTrypanosoma cruziDiscrete Typing Units in End‐Stage Chronic Chagas Heart Disease and Reactivation after Heart Transplantation

(2010) Juan Miguel Burgos et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Clinical and laboratory status of patients with chronic Chagas disease living in a vector-controlled area in Minas Gerais, Brazil, before and nine years after aetiological treatment

(2010) Marta de Lana et al.   MEMORIAS DO INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ

Chagas Cardiomyopathy Manifestations and Trypanosoma cruzi Genotypes Circulating in Chronic Chagasic Patients

(2010) Juan David Ramírez et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Evaluation of Adult Chronic Chagas' Heart Disease Diagnosis by Molecular and Serological Methods

(2009) J. D. Ramirez et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

A new consensus for Trypanosoma cruzi intraspecific nomenclature: second revision meeting recommends TcI to TcVI

(2009) B Zingales et al.   MEMORIAS DO INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ

A new genotype of Trypanosoma cruzi associated with bats evidenced by phylogenetic analyses using SSU rDNA, cytochrome b and Histone H2B genes and genotyping based on ITS1 rDNA

(2009) A. MARCILI et al.   PARASITOLOGY

Analysis of an acute Chagas disease outbreak in the Brazilian Amazon: human cases, triatomines, reservoir mammals and parasites

(2009) Sebastião Aldo da Silva Valente et al.   TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE

Genome-Scale Multilocus Microsatellite Typing of Trypanosoma cruzi Discrete Typing Unit I Reveals Phylogeographic Structure and Specific Genotypes Linked to Human Infection

(2009) Martin S. Llewellyn et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Trypanosoma cruzi: Multiplex PCR to detect and classify strains according to groups I and II

(2008) Daniel B. Liarte et al.   EXPERIMENTAL PARASITOLOGY

Trypanosoma cruzi in Brazilian Amazonia: Lineages TCI and TCIIa in wild primates, Rhodnius spp. and in humans with Chagas disease associated with oral transmission

(2008) Arlei Marcili et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY

Genomic organization and transcription analysis of the 195-bp satellite DNA in Trypanosoma cruzi

(2008) Camila Martins et al.   MOLECULAR AND BIOCHEMICAL PARASITOLOGY