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1 online resource (191 pages) |
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01 Title; 02 Cover Page; 03 REVISED eBooks End User License Agreement-Website; 04 Contents; 05 Foreword; 06 Preface; 07 Contributors; 08 Chapter 1; 09 Chapter 2; 10 Chapter 3; 11 Chapter 4; 12 Chapter 5; 13 Chapter 6; 14 Chapter 7; 15 Chapter 8; 16 Chapter 9 FINAL; 17 Chapter 10; 18 Chapter 11; 19 Chapter 12; 20 Chapter 13; 21 Chapter 14; 21 Chapter 15; 23 Chapter 16; 24 Chapter 17; 25 Index |
| Summary |
The book focuses on a global problem challenging the health systems. Trypanosoma cruzi infections are transmitted by cone-nosed triatomine bugs, by blood transfusion and congenitally from mothers to their offspring. The American Trypanosomiasis affects 20 million people; among them a significant parcel (& 1/3) will develop Chagas disease in the heart and digestive tract, where the immune system effector cells destroy target host cells. Genotype modifications resulting from transfer of minicircle sequence kDNA from the parasite into the hostś genome may explain the autoimmune pathogenesis of t |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Chagas' disease.
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SCIENCE -- Applied Sciences.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Inventions.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Reference.
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Chagas' disease
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Vinaud, Marina
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Castro, Ana Maria
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| ISBN |
9781608050413 |
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1608050416 |
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