Course of infection and histopathological lesions in mice infected with seventeen Trypanosoma cruzi strains isolated from chronic patients

• Main Authors: B R Schlemper Jr, C M Ávila, J R Coura, Z Brener
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) 1983
• Subjects: Trypanosoma cruzi; Cepas; Histopatologia; Camundongo; Strains; Histopathology; Mouse; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Arctic; Alta; Aguda
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/7961e367177e431a9413a94374820436

Mice were infected with blood forms of 17 Trypanosoma cruzi strains recently isolated from chronic patients, which were dassified as of low, medium or high virulence on grounds of the prepatent period, parasitemia and mortality at the acute phase. A total of 212 mice were studied after 3, 6, 9 and 1...