Placental infection by two subpopulations of Trypanosoma cruzi is conditioned by differential survival of the parasite in a deleterious placental medium and not by tissue reproduction

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 103, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1011-1018

  Triquell, María F ^a   Díaz Luján, Cintia ^a,b   Freilij, Hector ^c   Paglini, Patricia ^a   Fretes, Ricardo E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

^b Universidad Nacional de La Rioja   (Argentina)

^c HOSPITAL DE NIÑOS RICARDO GUTIÉRREZ   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Chagas disease; Chorionic villi; Congenital; Nitric oxide; Placenta; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHORION VILLUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; PREGNANCY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL RATE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; VERO CELL; ANIMAL; FEMALE; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLACENTA DISORDER; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHORIONIC VILLI; FEMALE; HUMANS; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; NITRIC OXIDE; PLACENTA DISEASES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 70249146556     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2009.03.004     Document Type: Article

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