Trypanosoma cruzi I and IV stocks from Brazilian Amazon are divergent in terms of biological and medical properties in mice.

• Main Authors: Wuelton Marcelo Monteiro (Author), Ana Paula Margioto Teston (Author), Ana Paula Gruendling (Author), Daniele dos Reis (Author), Mônica Lúcia Gomes (Author), Silvana Marques de Araújo (Author), Maria Terezinha Bahia (Author), Laylah Kelre Costa Magalhães (Author), Jorge Augusto de Oliveira Guerra (Author), Henrique Silveira (Author), Max Jean de Ornelas Toledo (Author), Maria das Graças Vale Barbosa (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<h4>Background</h4>In the Brazilian Amazon, clinical and epidemiological frameworks of Chagas disease are very dissimilar in relation to the endemic classical areas of transmission, possibly due to genetic and biological characteristics of the circulating Trypanosoma cruzi stocks. Twenty...