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

• 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

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.