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Transferability of Trypanosoma cruzi from mixed human host infection to Triatoma infestans and from insects to axenic culture.
Parasitology international - 1 Feb 2015
Ortiz Sylvia, Zulantay Inés, Apt Werner, Saavedra Miguel, Solari Aldo
Abstract excerpt
The etiologic agent of Chagas disease is Trypanosoma cruzi, a protozoan whose life cycle involves obligatory passage through vertebrate and invertebrate hosts in a series of stages. The aim of this study was to explore the transferability of mixed discrete typing units (DTUs) of T. cruzi present in chronic chagasic patients when passed through an invertebrate host during xenodiagnosis (XD) and then when...
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