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Susceptibility of Mepraia spinolai and Triatoma infestans to different Trypanosoma cruzi strains from naturally infected rodent hosts.
Acta tropica - 1 Oct 2007
Campos Ricardo, Acuña-Retamar Mariana, Botto-Mahan Carezza, Ortiz Sylvia, Cattan Pedro E, Solari Aldo
Abstract excerpt
Trypanosoma cruzi is the causative agent of Chagas disease, a zoonosis involving domestic and sylvatic mammalian reservoirs. Since scarce information has been published about the susceptibility of T. cruzi lineages to other triatomine species besides Triatoma infestans, we evaluate the susceptibility of T. infestans and Mepraia spinolai to different T. cruzi lineages, originated from naturally infected Octodon...
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