Reaching for the Holy Grail: insights from infection/cure models on the prospects for vaccines for Trypanosoma cruzi infection

Prevention of Trypanosoma cruzi infection in mammals likely depends on either prevention of the invading trypomastigotes from infecting host cells or the rapid recognition and killing of the newly infected cells by T. cruzi-specific T cells. We show here that multiple rounds of infection and cure (b...

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Main Authors: Bustamante, Juan, Tarleton, Rick
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4489482/