Evidence for Trypanosoma cruzi in adipose tissue in human chronic Chagas disease

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 13, Issue 12-13, 2011, Pages 1002-1005

  Matos Ferreira, Adaliene Versiani ^a   Segatto, Marcela ^a   Menezes, Zélia ^a   Macedo, Andréa Mara ^a   Gelape, Cláudio ^a   de Oliveira Andrade, Luciana ^a   Nagajyothi, Fnu ^b   Scherer, Philipp E ^c,d   Teixeira, Mauro Martins ^a,b   Tanowitz, Herbert B ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adipocyte; Adipose tissue; Chagas disease; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

ADIPOCYTE; ADIPOSE TISSUE; AGED; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ADIPOCYTES, WHITE; ADIPOSE TISSUE; AGED; ANIMALS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DNA, KINETOPLAST; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HEART; HEART BLOCK; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALIA; MUS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 80053384333     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: 1769714X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2011.06.002     Document Type: Article

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