Trypanosoma cruzi and experimental Chagas' disease: characterization of a stock isolated from a patient with associated digestive and cardiac form

• Main Authors: E.C. Oliveira, M.M.A. Stefani, A.O. Luquetti, E.F. Vêncio, M.A.R. Moreira, C. Souza, J.M. Rezende
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) 1993
• Subjects: Cepa de Trypanosoma cruzi; Doença de Chagas; Infecção experimental; Sorologia; Histopatologia; Trypanosoma cruzi strain; Chagas'disease; Experimental infection; Serology; Histopathology; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Arctic; Aguda
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/4cd8d4da9c2146858356e4c6dc1d9285

A new Trypanosoma cruzi stock isolated from a patient in the chronic phase of Chagas' disease with the digestive and cardiac fortn of the disease was characterized by experimental infection in isogenic, susceptible, A/Sn strain mice. Parasitemia curves showed up to 1.7x10(6) parasites/ml and no...