Serial heart rate changes in rats inoculated by conjunctival instillation of Trypanosoma cruzi obtained from bug faeces Alterações do ritmo cardíaco de ratos infectados pela via conjuntival por Trypanosoma cruzi obtidos de fezes de triatomíneos

• Published in: Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
• Main Authors: Adalinda Ollarves, Diego F. Dávila, Carlos F. Gottberg, Paolo Ramoni-Perazzi
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) 2000
• Subjects: Trypanosoma cruzi; Infecção conjuntival; Infecção chagásica experimental; Ritmo cardíaco; Disfunção autonômica; Conjunctival infection; Experimental Chagas' infection; Heart rate; Autonomic dysfunction; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Arctic; The ''Y''
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/S0037-86822000000600003; https://doaj.org/article/21a30c3a5b33450da1d7f800259e33c0

The cardiac effects of experimentally induced myocarditis, when the parasite is obtained from mouse blood, are well known. However, the consequences of the infection when the parasites are obtained from bug faeces are less well defined. In the present investigation, we have used the "Y" st...