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

Zingales, Bianca; Sg, Andrade; Briones, MRS; Campbell, D.M.; Chiari, Egler; Fernandes, O.; Guhl, Felipe; Lages‐Silva, E.; A. P. Macedo, A.; Renato Machado, Carlos; Miles, MA; J Romanha, A; Sturm, NR; Tibayrenc, Michel; Schijman, A.G.

doi:10.1590/s0074-02762009000700021

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

Published in Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz • Nov 1, 2009

Authors:

Bianca Zingales

Andrade Sg

MRS Briones

Abstract

In an effort to unify the nomenclature of Trypanosoma cruzi, the causative agent of Chagas disease, an updated system was agreed upon at the Second Satellite Meeting. A consensus was reached that T. cruzi strains should be referred to by six discrete typing units (T. cruzi I-VI). The goal of a unifi...

Subject

Trypanosoma cruzi

Nomenclature

Chagas disease

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