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Prophylactic low-dose, bi-weekly benznidazole treatment fails to prevent <i>Trypanosoma cruzi</i> infection in dogs under intense transmission pressure
2022-07-25
Abstract excerpt
Trypanosoma cruzi naturally infects a wide variety of wild and domesticated mammals, in addition to humans. Depending on the infection dose and other factors, the acute infection can be life-threatening, and in all cases, the risk of chagasic heart disease is high in persistently infected hosts. Domestic, working, and semi-feral dogs in the Americas are at significant risk of T. cruzi and in certain settings in t...
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- Literature Corpus work
- ff281e59-d8dc-570e-a870-16d654ac1dcb
- DOI
- 10.1101/2022.07.25.501361
