Morphological and molecular characterization and phylogenetic relationships of a new species of trypanosome in Tapirus terrestris (lowland tapir), Trypanosoma terrestris sp. nov., from Atlantic Rainforest of southeastern Brazil

BACKGROUND: The Lowland tapir (Tapirus terrestris) is the largest Brazilian mammal and despite being distributed in various Brazilian biomes, it is seriously endangered in the Atlantic Rainforest. These hosts were never evaluated for the presence of Trypanosoma parasites. METHODS: The Lowland tapirs...

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Autores principales: Acosta, Igor da Cunha, da Costa, Andrea Pereira, Nunes, Pablo Henrique, Gondim, Maria Fernanda Naegeli, Gatti, Andressa, Rossi Jr, João Luiz, Gennari, Solange Maria, Marcili, Arlei
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3878878/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24330660
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-6-349

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