Effects of severe protein restriction in levels of parasitemia and in mortality of mice accutely infected with Trypanosoma cruzi

• Published in: Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
• Main Authors: Nildete G.L. Gomes, Fausto E.L. Pereira, Gisele G.S. Domingues, Jesse R. Alves
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) 1994
• Subjects: Desnutrição; Doença de Chagas; Trypanosoma cruzi; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Arctic; The ''Y''
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/S0037-86821994000100005; https://doaj.org/article/e160bdb7a21f4ab993591974188c1954

Adult mice were submitted to different degrees of protein restriction for five weeks (4.75, 9.5,14.25 and 19% of protein in isocaloric diets with normal content of mineral and vitamins), being subsequently infected with two strains of Trypanosoma cruzi: 10(5) trypomastigotes of Y strain or 14(5) try...