Views on the autoimmunity hypothesis for Chagas disease pathogenesis
Open Access
- 1 June 2003
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in FEMS Immunology & Medical Microbiology
- Vol. 37 (1) , 1-11
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0928-8244(03)00097-x
Abstract
Initially, the notion that the pathogenesis of Chagas disease has an autoimmune component was based on the finding that sera from Trypanosoma cruzi-iKeywords
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