Differential expression of systemic cytokine profiles in Chagas' disease is associated with endemicity of Trypanosoma cruzi infections

Acta Tropica

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 89-97

  Samudio, Margarita ^a,b   Montenegro James, Sonia ^b,c   De Cabral, Margarita ^a   Martinez, Jorge ^a   Rojas De Arias, Antonieta ^a   Woroniecky, Olga ^d   James, Mark A ^b  

^a Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Salud Universidad Nacional de Asuncion   (Paraguay)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OCHSNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Ministry of Health   (Paraguay)

Author keywords

Chagas' disease; Cytokines; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION DISTURBANCE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; CHAGAS CARDIOMYOPATHY; CHAGAS DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKINS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARAGUAY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

CHAGAS DISEASE; CYTOKINE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GAMMA INTERFERON; GENE INDUCTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MESSENGER RNA; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; PARAGUAY; PATHOGENESIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROTYPING; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

CHAGAS' DISEASE; DISEASE INCIDENCE; INFECTION RATES;

PARAGUAY;

EID: 0031597609     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0001-706X(97)00118-6     Document Type: Article

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