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Genetic typing of Trypanosoma cruzi isolates from different hosts and geographical areas of western Venezuela
(2011-12-13)
A total of 72 Trypanosoma cruzi isolates from different hosts and geographical regions of western Venezuela, where Chagas disease is endemic, were typed using ribosomal and mini-exon gene markers. The isolates were obtained ...
Trypanosoma cruzi primary infection prevents severe re-infection in mice
(2011-12-13)
Se evalúa el efecto de reinoculaciones por Trypanosoma cruzi en ratones experimentalmente infectados. De un total de 200 ratones que fueron infectados por vía intradérmica con un inóculo de 5x103 tripomastigotes metacíclicos ...
Chagas disease inapparent infection in asymptomatic individuals from a Yukpa ethnic community in western Venezuela
(2011-12-13)
Inapparent infections by Trypanosoma cruzi were detected, for the first time, in symptomless seropositive healthy individuals from a Yukpa ethnic community in western Venezuela where Chagas disease had not been previously ...
Trypanosoma cruzi persistence at oral inflammatory foci in chronic chagasic patients
(2011-12-13)
The persistence of Trypanosoma cruzi in seropositive individuals, previously diagnosed as chronic chagasic
patients (CCP), was detected for the first time in biopsies taken from gingival inflammatory foci processed
by ...
Infected dogs as a risk factor in the transmission of human Trypanosoma cruzi infection in western Venezuela
(Acta Tropica 98 (2006), 2006-07)
A total of 565 mongrel dogs from rural localities of Venezuela were examined by serological (DAT, IFAT and ELISA) and parasitological tests to address the status of Trypanosoma cruzi infection and to evaluate their role ...
Update on Chagas disease in Venezuela - A review
(Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Vol. 99(8): 781-787, December 2004, 2004-12)
The present article reviews the status of Chagas disease in Venezuela based on the detection of Trypanosoma cruzi infections both in referred patients with clinical presumptive diagnosis (1988-2002) and in individuals ...