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Genética de poblaciones de triatomineos en relación a las estrategias de control de insectos vectores
(Bol. Soc. Zool. Uruguay, 1995)
The causative agent of Chagas disease infects more than 16 millions persons in Latin America; the resulting human chronic pathology is responsible of an important economic loss. The authors first analyze the main features ...
Evaluación de la respuesta humoral de pacientes con lesiones diversas asociadas a la enfermedad de Chagas frente a diferentes antígenos de T. cruzi
(Cuadernos, 1995)
RESUMEN.
Con el fin de encontrar mejores antígenos de T. cruzi, y posibles marcadores inmunológicos, para el diagnóstico de las diferentes formas clínicas del mal de Chagas, se probaron amastigotes y la fracción ...
Immunopathologie de la trypanosomiase américaine
(Institut Pasteur, 1993)
SUMMARY.
lmmunopathology of American trypanosomiasis
Chagas'disease, caused by infection with Trypanosoma cruzi, affects 14-16 million
people in Latin America. Clinical manifestations are represented by cardiomyopathy ...
Metric differences between silvatic and domestic Triatoma infestans (Heteroptera: Reduviidae) in Bolivia
(Med Entomol, 1997)
Abstract.
One hundred and fifty-seven specimens of Bolivian Triatoma infestans (Klug 1834), including 44 from the silvatic focus at Cochabamba (Bolivia), were compared using morphometric characters of the head capsule. ...
Comparisons of immunological tests for serodiagnosis of Chagas disease in Bolivian patients
(Tropical and Geographical Medicine, 1985)
Abstract.
Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and immunoelectrophoresis (IEP) were evaluated and compared to the classical immunofluorescence (IF) and complement fixation test (CFT) in the immunological diagnosis ...
Enfermedad de Chagas
(Salud Boliviana, 1988)
La implementación de un laboratorio de Inmunoparasitología adecuadamente equipado permitió al Instituto Boliviano de Biología de Altura, iniciar en 1980 estudios sobre la enfermedad de Chagas, con relativo éxito, expresado ...
The origin of Rhodnius prolixus in Central America
(Medical and Veterinary Entomology, 1998)
Rhodnius prolixus Stal (Hemiptera, Reduviidae) is the main domestic vector of Chagas disease in Venezuela and Colombia, and also in parts of Central América (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua). In Central ...
Specific humoral depression in chronic patients infected by Trypanosoma cruzi
(Rev. Inst. Méd. Trop., 1984)
SUMMARY.
We performed a comparative study between xenodiagnosis and serological
tests for Chagas’disease. 150 Patients from several endemic areas were studied.
Four of them appeared to have a peculiar status with positive ...
Genetic variability and microdistribution of Triatoma infestans genotypes and Trypanosoma cruzi clones in Arequipa región (Peru)
(Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz, 1997)
The genetic variability of Triatoma infestans and Trypanosoma cruzi populations was studied by isoenzyme analysis in two distinct areas of Arequipa province (Peru); one, Santa Rita de Siguas, being an endemic area for ...
Immune response to Trypanosoma cruzi shed acute phase antigen in children from an endemic area for Chagas'disease in Bolivia
(Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz, 1997)
A field study of the immune response to the shed acute phase antigen (SAPA) of Trypanosoma cruzi was carried out in the locality of Mizque, Cochabamba department, Bolivia. Schoolchildren (266), with an average of 8.6 ± 3.6 ...