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List of works by Alejandro O. Luquetti

2 nd Brazilian Consensus on Chagas Disease, 2015.

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An improved serodiagnostic test for Chagas' disease employing a mixture of Trypanosoma cruzi recombinant antigens

scientific article published on January 2003

Chagas' disease diagnosis: a multicentric evaluation of Chagas Stat-Pak, a rapid immunochromatographic assay with recombinant proteins of Trypanosoma cruzi

scientific article published in August 2003

Characterization of the presence and distribution of Foxp3(+) cells in chagasic patients with and without megacolon

Comparative evaluation of 11 commercialized rapid diagnostic tests for detecting Trypanosoma cruzi antibodies in serum banks in areas of endemicity and nonendemicity

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Congenital Chagas Disease: Recommendations for Diagnosis, Treatment and Control of Newborns, Siblings and Pregnant Women

scientific article published on October 25, 2011

Congenital Chagas disease: Updated recommendations for prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of newborns and siblings, girls, women of childbearing age, and pregnant women

scientific article published on 24 October 2019

Congenital Chagas disease: an update

scientific article published on 6 March 2015

Congenital transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi in Brazil: estimation of prevalence based on preliminary data of national serological surveys in children under 5 years old and other sources

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Congenital transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi in central Brazil. A study of 1,211 individuals born to infected mothers

scientific article published on 14 March 2015

Current epidemiological profile of Chagasic megaesophagus in Central Brazil

scientific article published on May 1, 2013

Decreased expression of IK channels in neurons from enteric nervous system is associated with the development of chagasic megacolon

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Deep sequencing of the Trypanosoma cruzi GP63 surface proteases reveals diversity and diversifying selection among chronic and congenital Chagas disease patients

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Development of a New Lateral Flow Assay Based on IBMP-8.1 and IBMP-8.4 Chimeric Antigens to Diagnose Chagas Disease

scientific article published on 17 August 2020

Development of peptide-based lineage-specific serology for chronic Chagas disease: geographical and clinical distribution of epitope recognition.

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Diagnosis of Chagas disease: what has been achieved? What remains to be done with regard to diagnosis and follow up studies?

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Drug discovery for Chagas disease should consider Trypanosoma cruzi strain diversity

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Enteroglial cells act as antigen-presenting cells in chagasic megacolon

scientific article published on 3 January 2011

Evaluation of In-House ELISA Using Trypanosoma cruzi Lysate and Recombinant Antigens for Diagnosis of Chagas Disease and Discrimination of Its Clinical Forms

scientific article published on August 1, 2012

Expression of caspase-3 in enteric cells is related to development of chagasic megacolon

scientific article published in April 2009

Glial fibrillary acidic protein and S-100 colocalization in the enteroglial cells in dilated and nondilated portions of colon from chagasic patients

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Highly Effective Serodiagnosis for Chagas' Disease

scientific article published on July 28, 2010

Human autoantibodies specific for neurotrophin receptors TrkA, TrkB, and TrkC protect against lethal Trypanosoma cruzi infection in mice

scientific article published on 02 October 2008

Immunological tolerance and its breakdown in Chagas' heart disease: role of parasitokines

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Infection byTrypanosoma cruziMetacyclic Forms Deficient in gp82 but Expressing a Related Surface Molecule, gp30

scientific article published on November 1, 2003

International study to evaluate PCR methods for detection of Trypanosoma cruzi DNA in blood samples from Chagas disease patients

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Involvement of Ssp-4-related carbohydrate epitopes in mammalian cell invasion by Trypanosoma cruzi amastigotes

article by Claudio Vieira da Silva et al published July 2006 in Microbes and Infection

Multi-epitope proteins for improved serological detection of Trypanosoma cruzi infection and Chagas Disease.

scientific article published on 10 November 2015

PCR assay for monitoring Trypanosoma cruzi parasitemia in childhood after specific chemotherapy

scientific article published on November 2003

Performance levels of four Latin American laboratories for the serodiagnosis of Chagas disease in Mexican sera samples

scientific article published on August 2009

Prevalence, clinical staging and risk for blood-borne transmission of Chagas disease among Latin American migrants in Geneva, Switzerland

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Regenerative process evaluation of neuronal subclasses in chagasic patients with megacolon

scientific article published on 5 December 2012

Serodiagnosis of chronic and acute Chagas' disease with Trypanosoma cruzi recombinant proteins: results of a collaborative study in six Latin American countries

scientific article published on January 2004

Substance P and NK1 receptor expression in the enteric nervous system is related to the development of chagasic megacolon

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Target product profile for a test for the early assessment of treatment efficacy in Chagas disease patients: An expert consensus

scientific article published on 23 April 2020

The Trypanosoma cruzi satellite DNA OligoC-TesT and Trypanosoma cruzi kinetoplast DNA OligoC-TesT for diagnosis of Chagas disease: a multi-cohort comparative evaluation study.

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The impact of the extensive chemical control of Triatoma infestans on the incidence of acute cases and the prevalence of human Chagas disease. The example of Montalvânia, Minas Gerais State

scientific article published in November 2003

Trypanosoma cruzi surface molecule gp90 downregulates invasion of gastric mucosal epithelium in orally infected mice.

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Validation of a rapid and reliable test for diagnosis of chagas' disease by detection of Trypanosoma cruzi-specific antibodies in blood of donors and patients in Central America

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Validation of a rapid immunochromatographic assay for diagnosis of Trypanosoma cruzi infection among Latin-American Migrants in Geneva, Switzerland

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Western blotting method (TESAcruzi) as a supplemental test for confirming the presence of anti-Trypanosoma cruzi antibodies in finger prick blood samples from children aged 0–5 years in Brazil

scientific article published on September 19, 2010

[A retrospective search for maternal transmission of Chagas infection from patients in the chronic phase]

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[Basic decalogue for care of Chagas's disease at primary level]

scientific article published on 01 October 2014

[Brazilian Consensus on Chagas Disease, 2015].

scientific article published on June 2016

[Diagnosis and treatment of congenital infection caused by Trypanosoma cruzi in Brazil]

scientific article published on 01 January 2005

[Evaluation of blood tests, complement-mediated lysis and polymerase chain reaction in the verification of therapeutic efficacy in Chagas disease]

scientific article published on 01 January 2006