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A new experimental model for assessing drug efficacy against Trypanosoma cruzi infection based on highly sensitive in vivo imaging

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Analysis of molecular diversity of the Trypanosoma cruzi trypomastigote small surface antigen reveals novel epitopes, evidence of positive selection and potential implications for lineage-specific serology

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Apolipoprotein L1 Variant Associated with Increased Susceptibility to Trypanosome Infection

scientific article published on 12 April 2016

Bioluminescence imaging of chronic Trypanosoma cruzi infections reveals tissue-specific parasite dynamics and heart disease in the absence of locally persistent infection

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Candidate targets for Multilocus Sequence Typing of Trypanosoma cruzi: validation using parasite stocks from the Chaco Region and a set of reference strains

scientific article published on 22 December 2011

Challenges in Chagas Disease Drug Development

scientific article published on 17 June 2020

Comparative genomic analysis of human infective Trypanosoma cruzi lineages with the bat-restricted subspecies T. cruzi marinkellei.

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Comparative phylogeography of Trypanosoma cruzi TCIIc: new hosts, association with terrestrial ecotopes, and spatial clustering

scientific article published on 24 July 2009

Contemporary cryptic sexuality in Trypanosoma cruzi

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Culture-free genome-wide locus sequence typing (GLST) provides new perspectives on Trypanosoma cruzi dispersal and infection complexity

scientific article published on 16 December 2020

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

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Extraordinary Trypanosoma cruzi diversity within single mammalian reservoir hosts implies a mechanism of diversifying selection

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Fatal progression of experimental visceral leishmaniasis is associated with intestinal parasitism and secondary infection by commensal bacteria, and is delayed by antibiotic prophylaxis

scientific article published on 13 April 2020

Flow cytometric analysis and microsatellite genotyping reveal extensive DNA content variation in Trypanosoma cruzi populations and expose contrasts between natural and experimental hybrids.

scientific article published on 22 April 2009

Genome and phylogenetic analyses of trypanosoma evansi reveal extensive similarity to T. brucei and multiple independent origins for dyskinetoplasty

scientific article published in January 2015

Genome-scale multilocus microsatellite typing of Trypanosoma cruzi discrete typing unit I reveals phylogeographic structure and specific genotypes linked to human infection

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Genotyping of Trypanosoma cruzi: systematic selection of assays allowing rapid and accurate discrimination of all known lineages

scientific article published on December 2009

Highly sensitive in vivo imaging of Trypanosoma brucei expressing "red-shifted" luciferase

scientific article (publication date: November 2013)

Host and parasite genetics shape a link between Trypanosoma cruzi infection dynamics and chronic cardiomyopathy

scientific article published on 26 February 2016

Host-parasite dynamics in Chagas disease from systemic to hyper-local scales

scientific article published on 16 August 2020

Hosts and vectors of Trypanosoma cruzi discrete typing units in the Chagas disease endemic region of the Paraguayan Chaco

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Identification and lineage genotyping of South American trypanosomes using fluorescent fragment length barcoding.

scientific article published on 26 October 2010

Impact of Visceral Leishmaniasis on Local Organ Metabolism in Hamsters

scientific article published in 2022

Increased Transmissibility of Leishmania donovani From the Mammalian Host to Vector Sand Flies After Multiple Exposures to Sand Fly Bites

scientific article published on 9 March 2017

Limited Ability of Posaconazole To Cure both Acute and Chronic Trypanosoma cruzi Infections Revealed by Highly Sensitive In Vivo Imaging

scientific article published on 26 May 2015

Local association of Trypanosoma cruzi chronic infection foci and enteric neuropathic lesions at the tissue micro-domain scale

scientific article published on 23 August 2021

Molecular Diversity of Trypanosoma cruzi Detected in the Vector Triatoma protracta from California, USA

scientific article published on 21 January 2016

Molecular epidemiologic source tracking of orally transmitted Chagas disease, Venezuela

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Molecular genotyping of Trypanosoma cruzi for lineage assignment and population genetics.

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Multilocus sequence and microsatellite identification of intra-specific hybrids and ancestor-like donors among natural Ethiopian isolates of Leishmania donovani

scientific article published on July 2014

Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) for lineage assignment and high resolution diversity studies in Trypanosoma cruzi

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Multiple mitochondrial introgression events and heteroplasmy in trypanosoma cruzi revealed by maxicircle MLST and next generation sequencing.

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Nitroheterocyclic drugs cure experimental Trypanosoma cruzi infections more effectively in the chronic stage than in the acute stage

scientific article published on 17 October 2016

North American import? Charting the origins of an enigmatic Trypanosoma cruzi domestic genotype.

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Optimized multilocus sequence typing (MLST) scheme for Trypanosoma cruzi

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Putting Infection Dynamics at the Heart of Chagas Disease

scientific article published on 6 September 2016

Recent, independent and anthropogenic origins of Trypanosoma cruzi hybrids

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Reply to "Drug Susceptibility of Genetically Engineered Trypanosoma cruzi Strains and Sterile Cure in Animal Models as a Criterion for Potential Clinical Efficacy of Anti-T. cruzi Drugs".

scientific article published on December 2015

Resolution of multiclonal infections of Trypanosoma cruzi from naturally infected triatomine bugs and from experimentally infected mice by direct plating on a sensitive solid medium

scientific article published on 11 September 2006

Shotgun sequencing analysis of Trypanosoma cruzi I Sylvio X10/1 and comparison with T. cruzi VI CL Brener

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The Trypanosoma cruzi vitamin C dependent peroxidase confers protection against oxidative stress but is not a determinant of virulence

scientific article (publication date: April 2015)

The genotype distribution of the XRCC1 gene indicates a role for base excision repair in the development of therapy-related acute myeloblastic leukemia

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The midgut microbiota plays an essential role in sand fly vector competence for Leishmania major.

scientific article published on 05 June 2017

The molecular epidemiology and phylogeography of Trypanosoma cruzi and parallel research on Leishmania: looking back and to the future.

scientific article published on 20 August 2009

Trypanosoma cruzi IIc: phylogenetic and phylogeographic insights from sequence and microsatellite analysis and potential impact on emergent Chagas disease

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Visualisation of Leishmania donovani fluorescent hybrids during early stage development in the sand fly vector

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