Trypanosoma cruzi experimental congenital transmission associated with TcV and TcI subpatent maternal parasitemia

Parasitology Research

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 671-678

  Alkmim Oliveira, Sandra Maria ^a   Costa Martins, André Guilherme ^a,b   Kappel, Henrique Borges ^a   Correia, Dalmo ^a   Ramirez, Luis Eduardo ^a   Lages Silva, Eliane ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF TRIÂNGULO MINEIRO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD EXAMINATION; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPIMASTIGOTE; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; PARASITOLOGY; PERINATAL PERIOD; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; CHAGAS DISEASE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PARASITEMIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALIA; MUS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 84878351767     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: 14321955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-012-3184-3     Document Type: Article

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