Chagas disease: Neurology and neurobiology

Neglected Tropical Diseases and Conditions of the Nervous System

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 201-215

  Coura, José Rodrigues ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

American trypanosomiasis; Autonomic nervous system; Denervation; Heart block and arrhythmias; Megaviscera; Meningoencephalitis; Parasites; Peripheral nervous system; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948172239     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-8100-3_11     Document Type: Chapter

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