Shotgun sequencing analysis of Trypanosoma cruzi I Sylvio X10/1 and comparison with T. cruzi VI CL Brener.

• Main Authors: Oscar Franzén (Author), Stephen Ochaya (Author), Ellen Sherwood (Author), Michael D Lewis (Author), Martin S Llewellyn (Author), Michael A Miles (Author), Björn Andersson (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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Trypanosoma cruzi is the causative agent of Chagas disease, which affects more than 9 million people in Latin America. We have generated a draft genome sequence of the TcI strain Sylvio X10/1 and compared it to the TcVI reference strain CL Brener to identify lineage-specific features. We found virtu...