Is Trypanosoma cruzi pathology strain dependent?;Patología por Trypanosoma cruzi ¿cepa dependiente?

Medicina

Volumn 59, Issue SUPPL. 2, 1999, Pages 69-74

  Gonzalez Cappa, Stella M ^a   Mirkin, Gerardo A ^b   Solana, Maria E ^b   Tekiel, Valeria S ^b  

^a Facuitad de Medicina   (Argentina)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Antibodies; Autoimmunity; Congenital transmission; Immunopathology; Parasite subpopulations; Pathology; T lymphocytes; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MOUSE; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; PARASITOLOGY; PREGNANCY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; T LYMPHOCYTE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CHAGAS DISEASE; FEMALE; LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; MICE; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES; PREGNANCY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0041703830     PISSN: 00257680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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