Effect of citrinin and in association with aflatoxin B1 on the infectivity and proliferation of Toxoplasma gondii in vitro

Macrophages exposed to 10 mug/mL citrinin (CTR) or 0.01 mug CTR mixed with 0.04 mug aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) for a period of 2 h at 37ºC, were infected with 10(6) Toxoplasma gondii tachyzoites/muL. The parasites were treated with mycotoxins (2 h at 37ºC) before being added to the macrophage culture. The...

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Main Authors: Joanna D'Arc A Herzog-Soares, Ronald Bastos Freire
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier
Series:Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
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