Etiology of Chagas disease myocarditis: autoimmunity, parasite persistence, or both?
- 31 January 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in Trends in Parasitology
- Vol. 19 (1) , 19-22
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s1471-4922(02)00006-5
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