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El trabajo aporta un nuevo caso de leucemia cutis, raro en frecuencia, que presenta un comienzo clínico muy poco habitual, a tener en cuenta. Fueron necesarias varias biopsias para llegar al diagnóstico de la paciente. La supervivencia de la paciente está por encima de la media en estos casos.
The work presents a new case of leukemia cutis, rare in frequency, which has a very unusual clinical onset to take into account. It took several biopsies for the diagnosis of the patient. The survival of the patient is above average in these cases.
RESUMO
Strategies to construct the physical map of the Trypanosoma cruzi nuclear genome have to capitalize on three main advantage of the parasite genome, namely (a) its small size, (b) the fact that all chromosomes can be defined, and many of them can be isolated by pulse field gel electrophoresis, and (c) the fact that simple Southern blots of electrophoretic karyotypes can be used to map sequence tagged sites and expressed sequence tags to chromosomal bands. A major drawback to cope with is the complexity of T. cruzi genetics, that hinders the construction of a comprehensive genetic map. As a first step towards physical mapping, we report the construction and partial characterization of a T. cruzi CL-Brener genomic library in yeast artificial chromosomes (YACs) that consists of 2.770 individual YACs with a mean insert size of 365 kb encompassing around 10 genomic equivalents. Two libraries in bacterial artificial chromosomes (BACs) have been constructed, BACI and BACII. Both libraries represent about three genome equivalents. A third BAC library (BAC III) is being constructed. YACs and BACs are invaluable tools for physical mapping. More generally, they have to be considered as a common resource for research in Chagas disease.