Biological behavior of different Trypanosoma cruzi isolates circulating in an endemic area for Chagas disease in the Gran Chaco region of Argentina

Acta Tropica

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 196-201

  Ragone, Paula G ^a   Pérez Brandán, Cecilia ^a   Padilla, Angel M ^b   Monje Rumi, Mercedes ^a   Lauthier, Juan J ^a   Alberti D'Amato, Anahí M ^a   Tomasini, Nicolás ^a   Cimino, Ruben O ^a   Romero, Nélida M ^a   Portelli, Marcela ^a   Nasser, Julio R ^a   Basombrío, Miguel A ^a   Diosque, Patricio ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SALTA   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological properties; Chagas disease; Natural isolates; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC SPECIES; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HISTOLOGY; PARASITE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CHAGAS DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MOUSE; MUSCLE INJURY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE EXAMINATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; PRESERVATION; SEROLOGY; SPECIES ENDEMICITY; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ARGENTINA; BLOOD; CHAGAS DISEASE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ENDEMIC DISEASES; ENZYMES; GENETIC VARIATION; HEART; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOCARDIUM; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ARGENTINA; GRAN CHACO;

HEXAPODA; MUS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 84863485244     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2012.05.003     Document Type: Article

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