Interactive Multimedia to Teach the Life Cycle of Trypanosoma cruzi, the Causative Agent of Chagas Disease

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Teixeira, Dirceu E ^a,b   Benchimol, Marlene ^a,b,c   Crepaldi, Paulo Henrique ^a,b   de Souza, Wanderley ^b,d  

^a CEDERJ Consortium/CECIERJ Foundation   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE METROLOGIA   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSIDADE SANTA ÚRSULA   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CHAGAS DISEASE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; HOST; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMAGE DISPLAY; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INVERTEBRATE; LIFE CYCLE; MORPHOLOGY; MULTIMEDIA; NONHUMAN; TEACHING; TRIATOMINAE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

CHAGAS DISEASE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MULTIMEDIA; TROPICAL MEDICINE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 84865988655     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001749     Document Type: Article

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