Rapid tests could be used to diagnose Chagas disease in resource-limited areas. The results of this research show that the prevalence of Chagas in an indigenous community in Paraguay is six times ...

This important study investigates the propensity of the intravacuolar pathogen, Leishmania, to scavenge lipids which it utilizes for its accelerated growth within macrophages. Although some of the ...

transfusiones de sangre; Control; Inmunodiagnosis. Primary investigations carried out in blood banks in Venezuela during the 1950s, indicated that overall seroprevalence for Trypanosoma cruzi ...

1,250 ± 297 nmol per mg protein were found in epimastigotes of T. cruzi. The basic amino acids arginine and lysine account for almost 90% of the amino acid pool of the acidocalcisomes ...

In Trypanosoma cruzi-acutely infected mice, we also demonstrated changes in the expression of medullary and cortical specific TEC markers such as cytokeratins, as compared to controls, together with a ...

2018). These are Trypanosoma cruzi (Chagas’ disease), T. brucei gambiense, and T. b. rhodesiense (human African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness), and Leishmania spp. (different kinds of ...