Trypanosoma cruzi: Mixture of two populations can modify virulence and tissue tropism in rat

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 104, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 54-61

  Franco, Deila J ^a   Vago, Annamaria R ^a   Chiari, Egler ^a   Meira, Fidel C A ^a   Galvão, Lucia M C ^a   Machado, Conceição R S ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Chagas' disease; kDNA; Myocarditis; Myositis; Trypanosoma cruzi variability

Indexed keywords

KINETOPLAST DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MYOCARDITIS; MYOSITIS; NONHUMAN; ORGAN DISTRIBUTION; PARASITE VIRULENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SUPERINFECTION; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; ANIMAL; DIAPHRAGM; ESOPHAGUS; GENETICS; HEART; HEART MUSCLE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITEMIA; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RECTUM; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SMALL INTESTINE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; CHAGAS DISEASE; DIAPHRAGM; DNA, KINETOPLAST; ESOPHAGUS; HEART; INTESTINE, SMALL; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOCARDIUM; PARASITEMIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECTUM; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0141446221     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-4894(03)00119-X     Document Type: Article

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