Imaging Trypanosoma cruzi within tissues from chagasic patients using confocal microscopy with monoclonal antibodies

Parasitology Research

Volumn 85, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 800-808

  Mortara, Renato Arruda ^a   Da Silva, Solange ^a   Patrício, Francy R ^a   Higuchi, Maria De Lourdes ^b   Lopes, Edison Reis ^c   Gabbai, Alberto Alain ^a   Carnevale, Paola ^a   Rocha, Ademir ^d   Ferreira, Marcelo S ^d   Souza, Márcia M ^a   De Franco, Marcelo F ^a   Turcato Jr , Gilberto ^a   Neto, Ben Hur Ferraz ^e  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF TRIÂNGULO MINEIRO   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF UBERLÂNDIA   (Brazil)

^e HOSPITAL ALEMÃO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ACUTE PHASE RESPONSE; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DNA REPLICATION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABELING INDEX; MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; TRYPOMASTIGOTE;

PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0032849052     PISSN: 00443255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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