Trypanosoma cruzi: Role of host genetic background in the differential tissue distribution of parasite clonal populations

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 269-275

  Andrade, Luciana O ^a   Machado, Conceição R S ^a   Chiari, Egler ^a   Pena, Sérgio D J ^a   Macedo, Andréa M ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOST; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PARASITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CHAGAS CARDIOMYOPATHY; CHAGAS DISEASE; DIAPHRAGM; DNA, KINETOPLAST; ESOPHAGUS; HEART; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; PARASITEMIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECTUM; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALIA; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0036557773     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-4894(02)00024-3     Document Type: Article

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