Ana Laura CIMADOR1,#, Emeli Luciana GALANTE1,#, Lucila Ibel MUÑOZ1,#, Patricia Silvia ROMANO2,3, Antonella Denisse LOSINNO1,2, María Cristina VANRELL1,2,3
BIOCELL, Vol.43, No.1, pp. 13-20, 2019, DOI:10.32604/biocell.2019.07018
Abstract Trypanosoma rangeli and T. cruzi are both parasitic unicellular species that infect humans. Unlike T. cruzi,
the causative agent of Chagas disease, T. rangeli is an infective and non-pathogenic parasite for humans, but pathogenic
for vectors from the Rhodnius genus. Because both species can coexist in different hosts and overlap their infective
cycles but very little is known about the infection of T. rangeli in mammalian cells, we decided to characterize both the
development of this parasite in cell culture and the effect of therapeutic agents with potential trypanocidal action on
it. We found that T. rangeli exhibits a cycle of… More >
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