Evidence for Trypanosoma cruzi in adipose tissue in human chronic Chagas disease.

Abstract:

:Trypanosoma cruzi the cause of Chagas disease persists in tissues of infected experimental animals and humans. Here we demonstrate the persistence of the parasite in adipose tissue from of three of 10 elderly seropositive patients with chronic chagasic heart disease. Nine control patients had no parasites in the fat. We also demonstrate that T. cruzi parasitizes primary adipocytes in vitro. Thus, in humans as in mice the parasite may persist in adipose tissue for decades and become a reservoir of infection.

journal_name

Microbes Infect

journal_title

Microbes and infection

authors

Ferreira AV,Segatto M,Menezes Z,Macedo AM,Gelape C,de Oliveira Andrade L,Nagajyothi F,Scherer PE,Teixeira MM,Tanowitz HB

doi

10.1016/j.micinf.2011.06.002

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2011-11-01 00:00:00

pages

1002-5

issue

12-13

eissn

1286-4579

issn

1769-714X

pii

S1286-4579(11)00147-X

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13

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