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Implications of genetic variability of Trypanosoma cruzi for the pathogenesis of Chagas disease.
Cadernos de saude publica - 1 Oct 2007
Manoel-Caetano Fernanda da Silva, Silva Ana Elizabete
Abstract excerpt
Trypanosoma cruzi, the etiological agent of Chagas disease, presents a high degree of intraspecific genetic variability, with possible implications for the clinical forms of the disease, like the development of cardiopathy, megaesophagus, and megacolon, alone or in combination. This tissue tropism involved in the pathogenesis of Chagas disease has still not been totally elucidated. Thus, the current review...
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