Trypanosoma cruzi stocks isolated from acute Chagas disease patients lead to lethal murine infection

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 25-27

  Oliveira, E C ^a   Stefani, M M A ^b   Campos, D E ^a   Andrade, A L S S ^b   Silva, S A ^b   Rassi, A ^b   Luquetti, A O ^a  

^a Departamento de Parasitologia   (Brazil)

^b University Federal of Goias   (Brazil)

Author keywords

American trypanosomiasis; Chagas disease; Experimental infection; Mice; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; SURVIVAL RATE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPOMASTIGOTE;

EID: 0031045185     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(97)90381-3     Document Type: Article

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