Reinfections and Trypanosoma cruzi strains can determine the prognosis of the chronic chagasic cardiopathy in mice

Parasitology Research

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1407-1410

  Bustamante, Juan M ^a   Novarese, Mónica ^a   Rivarola, Héctor W ^a   Lo Presti, María S ^a   Fernández, Alicia R ^a   Enders, Julio E ^a   Fretes, Ricardo ^a   Paglini Oliva, Patricia A ^a  

^a FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECG ABNORMALITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; FEMALE; GENETIC STRAIN; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEART MUSCLE NECROSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; RECEPTOR DENSITY; REINFECTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; SURVIVAL; SWISS WEBSTER MOUSE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

MUS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 33947359936     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-006-0425-3     Document Type: Article

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