Mixed infections by different Trypanosoma cruzi discrete typing units among Chagas disease patients in an endemic community in Panama

• Alexa Prescilla Ledezma,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Biotechnology, Department of Parasitology, University of Granada, Granada, Spain, Center for Research and Diagnosis of Parasitic Diseases (CIDEP), Faculty of Medicine, University of Panama, Panama, Panama

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• Roberto Blandon,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation

  Affiliation Cardiology Service, Santo Tomas Hospital, Panama, Panama

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• Alejandro G. Schijman,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Chagas Disease, Institute of Research in Genetic Engineering and Molecular Biology “Dr Héctor Torres” (INGEBI-CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina

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• Alejandro Benatar,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Chagas Disease, Institute of Research in Genetic Engineering and Molecular Biology “Dr Héctor Torres” (INGEBI-CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1654-5374

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• Azael Saldaña,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for Research and Diagnosis of Parasitic Diseases (CIDEP), Faculty of Medicine, University of Panama, Panama, Panama, Gorgas Memorial Institute of Health Studies (ICGES), Panama, Panama

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• Antonio Osuna

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: aosuna@ugr.es

  Affiliation Institute of Biotechnology, Department of Parasitology, University of Granada, Granada, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3818-1471

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