Chagas

Infection, Genetics and Evolution 12 (2012) 240–253

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Bianca Zingales a,⇑, Michael A. Miles b, David A. Campbell c, Michel Tibayrenc d, Andrea M. Macedo e,
Marta M.G. Teixeira f, Alejandro G. Schijman g, Martin S. Llewellyn b, Eliane Lages-Silva h,
Carlos R. Machado e, Sonia G. Andrade i, Nancy R. Sturm c a Departamento de Bioquímica, Instituto de Química, Universidade de São Paulo, Avenida Professor Lineu Prestes 748, 05508-000 São Paulo, SP, Brazil
The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK c Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, 10833 Le Conte Ave, Los Angeles,
CA 90095-7065, USA d Maladies Infectieuses et Vecteurs Ecologie, Génétique, Evolution et Contrôle, MIVEGEC/IDVEGEC, UM1-CNRS 5290-IRD 224, IRD Center, BP 64501, 34394 Montpellier Cedex 5, France e Departamento de Bioquímica e Imunologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, CP 486, 30161-970 Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil f Departamento de Parasitologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Avenida Professor Lineu Prestes 1374, 05508-000 São Paulo, SP, Brazil g Laboratorio de Biología Molecular de la Enfermedad de Chagas, INGEBI-CONICET, Vuelto Obligado 2490, Buenos Aires 1428, Argentina h Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Triângulo Mineiro, Rua Frei Paulino 30, Uberaba, MG, Brazil i Centro de Pesquisas Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rua Waldemar Falcão 121, 40295-001 Salvador, Brazil b article

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Received 31 October 2011
Accepted 16 December 2011
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