Immunosuppression and Chagas disease: a management challenge.

• Main Authors: María-Jesús Pinazo (Author), Gerard Espinosa (Author), Cristina Cortes-Lletget (Author), Elizabeth de Jesús Posada (Author), Edelweiss Aldasoro (Author), Inés Oliveira (Author), Jose Muñoz (Author), Montserrat Gállego (Author), Joaquim Gascon (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Immunosuppression, which has become an increasingly relevant clinical condition in the last 50 years, modifies the natural history of Trypanosoma cruzi infection in most patients with Chagas disease. The main goal in this setting is to prevent the consequences of reactivation of T. cruzi infection b...