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 m...