Trypanosoma cruzi: chemotherapy with benznidazole in mice inoculated with strains from Paraná State and from different endemic areas of Brazil

Strains of Trypanosoma cruzi from different geographical areas have shown different levels of susceptibility to trypanocidal drugs. The susceptibility in vivo to benznidazole was investigated in eighteen strains of T. cruzi. Twelve were isolated from chronic chagasic patients from different Chagas’...

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Main Authors: Max Jean de Ornelas TOLEDO, Ana Lúcia Falavigna GUILHERME, José Carlos da SILVA, Marco Venício de GASPERI, Andréa Pereira MENDES, Mônica Lúcia GOMES, Silvana Marques de ARAÚJO
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 1997-09-01
Series:Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0036-46651997000500007