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Vaccine-linked chemotherapy with a low dose of benznidazole plus a bivalent recombinant protein vaccine prevents the development of cardiac fibrosis caused by <i>Trypanosoma cruzi</i> in BALB/c mice
2022-02-19
Abstract excerpt
<h4>Background</h4> Chagas disease (CD) is caused by Trypanosoma cruzi and affects 6-7 million people worldwide. Approximately 30% of chronic patients develop chronic chagasic cardiomyopathy (CCC) after decades. Benznidazole (BNZ), one of the first-line chemotherapy approved for CD, induces toxicity and fails to halt the progression of CCC in chronic patients. The recombinant parasite-derived antigens, including...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 98350bf8-56a9-5406-ae64-a3aedda3600e
- DOI
- 10.1101/2022.02.16.480638
