Cardiac plexus of dogs experimentally infected with Trypanosoma cruzi: inflammatory lesions and quantitative studies

Qualitative and quantitative aspects of the superficial and profound cardiac plexus of dogs experimentally infected with Be-62 and Be-78 strains of Trypanosoma cruzi were studied. Animals were autopsied in the acute phase of infection. The inflammatory process, lesions and number of parasites were m...

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Published in:Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
Main Authors: Marcelo V. Caliari, Marta de Lana, Estela R. O. Caliari, Washington L. Tafuri
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) 1995
Subjects:
Plexo cardíaco
Trypanosoma cruzi
Cão
Cardiopatia chagásica aguda
Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine
RC955-962
Arctic
Aguda
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1590/S0037-86821995000100003
https://doaj.org/article/93882fadd800406383500364b4bb2d3a
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Summary:Qualitative and quantitative aspects of the superficial and profound cardiac plexus of dogs experimentally infected with Be-62 and Be-78 strains of Trypanosoma cruzi were studied. Animals were autopsied in the acute phase of infection. The inflammatory process, lesions and number of parasites were more intense and frequent in animals infected with the Be-78 strain than in those infected with Be-62. Despite this, no statistically significant differences could be found between the number of neuron bodies in the ganglia of infected and control dogs.

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