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ReviewJournal of cellular and molecular medicine2010

Chagas' disease: an update on immune mechanisms and therapeutic strategies.

Silvia Beatriz Boscardin, Ana Claudia Troccoli Torrecilhas, Romina Manarin, Silvia Revelli, Elena Gonzalez Rey, Renata Rosito Tonelli, Ariel Mariano Silber

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Review in Journal of cellular and molecular medicine, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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30citing papers in PubMed
3.4field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

30 citing papers in PubMed, 71 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Silvia Beatriz BoscardinDepartment of Parasitology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Ana Claudia Troccoli Torrecilhas
Romina Manarin
Silvia Revelli
Elena Gonzalez Rey
Renata Rosito Tonelli
Ariel Mariano Silber
National University of Rosario · ARUniversidade de São Paulo · BRInstituto de Parasitología y Biomedicina "López - Neyra" · ESUniversidade Federal de São Paulo · BRUniversidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie · BR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

* Introduction * Chagas' disease * Chemotherapy * Immune response in experimental T. cruzi infection * Immune response in human beings infected with T. cruzi * Immune response in the treatment of chagasic infection * The need for new therapeutic alternatives for Chagas' disease * Conclusions The final decade of the 20th century was marked by an alarming resurgence in infectious diseases caused by tropical parasites belonging to the kinetoplastid protozoan order. Among the pathogenic trypanosomatids, some species are of particular interest due to their medical importance. These species include the agent responsible for Chagas' disease, Trypanosoma cruzi. Approximately 8 to 10 million people are infected in the Americas, and approximately 40 million are at risk. In the present review, we discuss in detail the immune mechanisms elicited during infection by T. cruzi and the effects of chemotherapy in controlling parasite proliferation and on the host immune system.

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Chagas DiseaseHumansTrypanosoma cruzi

Identifiers

PMID20070438
PMCPMC3829005
OpenAlexW2030192015

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