Trypanosoma cruzi: vertebrate and invertebrate cycles in the same mammal host, the opossum Didelphis marsupialis
Epimastigotes multiplying extracellularly and metacyclic trypomastigotes, stages that correspond to the cycle of Trypanosoma cruzi in the intestinal lumen of its insect vector, were consistently found in the lumen of the anal glands of opossums Didelphis marsupialis inoculated subcutaneously with infective feces of triatomid bugs.
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Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde
1984
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Online Access: | http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0074-02761984000400021 |
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