Chagas Disease
New Chagas disease study findings have been reported by scientists at Federal University
Published in Vaccine Weekly, June 17th, 2009
"There is a clear necessity to develop new drugs and strategies for the control and treatment of Chagas disease. Recent papers have suggested the ecto-nucleotidases (from CD39 family) from pathogenic agents as important virulence factors. In this study we evaluated the influence of Ecto-Nucleoside-Triphosphate-Diphosphohydrolase (Ecto-NTPDase) activity on infectivity and virulence of T. cruzi using both in vivo and in vitro models. We...
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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2009-06-17)
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