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Trypanosoma cruzi: infection patterns in intact and athymic mice of susceptible and resistant genotypes.
Histology and histopathology - 1 Jan 2002
Gonçalves da Costa S C, Calabrese K S, Zaverucha do Valle T, Lagrange P H
Abstract excerpt
Inbred strains of mice inoculated with the T cruzi Y strain behaved as susceptible (A/J, C3H/HeN), intermediate (BALB/c) or relatively resistant (C57BL/6) with respect to the magnitude of parasitaemia and mortality rate. C57BL/10 mice were susceptible in relation to parasitaemia but resistant when mortality was analyzed. Infection with T cruzi CL strain presented the same results, except for C57BL/6 which behaved...
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