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Salivaria or Stercoraria? The Trypanosoma rangeli dilemma

Edmundo C Grisard

Author Affiliations

Departamento de Microbiologia e Parasitologia, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Caixa, Postal 476, 88040-900 Florianópolis, SC, Brasil

Kinetoplastid Biology and Disease 2002, 1:5 doi:10.1186/1475-9292-1-5

Published: 5 July 2002

Abstract

The taxonomic status of Trypanosoma rangeli as well as the tools for its molecular characterization is briefly commented.