List of works by María del Carmen Thomas

A 12-mer repetitive antigenic epitope from Trypanosoma cruzi is a potential marker of therapeutic efficacy in chronic Chagas' disease.

scientific article published on 12 April 2016

A DEVH-box RNA Helicase from Leishmania braziliensis is Associated to mRNA Cytoplasmic Granules.

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A Parasite Biomarker Set for Evaluating Benznidazole Treatment Efficacy in Patients with Chronic Asymptomatic Trypanosoma cruzi Infection

scientific article published on 23 September 2019

A putative Leishmania DNA polymerase theta protects the parasite against oxidative damage.

scientific article published on 29 April 2016

Altering the motility of Trypanosoma cruzi with rabbit polyclonal anti-peptide antibodies reduces infection to susceptible mammalian cells.

scientific article published on 26 January 2015

Antiparasitic Treatment Induces an Improved CD8+ T Cell Response in Chronic Chagasic Patients.

scientific article published on 3 March 2017

Biological markers for evaluating therapeutic efficacy in Chagas disease, a systematic review.

scientific article published on April 2014

Biology of Trypanosoma cruzi Retrotransposons: From an Enzymatic to a Structural Point of View.

scientific article published in February 2018

Biomarkers of therapeutic responses in chronic Chagas disease: state of the art and future perspectives

scientific article published on 28 April 2015

Cellular Location of KMP-11 Protein in Trypanosoma rangeli

scientific article published on 01 January 2008

Chagasic patients are able to respond against a viral antigen from influenza virus.

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Changes in saliva of dogs with canine leishmaniosis: A proteomic approach

scientific article published on 28 June 2019

Characterising the KMP-11 and HSP-70 recombinant antigens' humoral immune response profile in chagasic patients.

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Characterization of SPf(66)n: a chimeric molecule used as a malaria vaccine.

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Characterization of an immunodominant antigenic epitope from Trypanosoma cruzi as a biomarker of chronic Chagas' disease pathology.

scientific article published on 7 December 2011

Cloning and molecular characterization of the cDNA encoding histone H1 from Leishmania braziliensis.

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DNA immunization with Trypanosoma cruzi HSP70 fused to the KMP11 protein elicits a cytotoxic and humoral immune response against the antigen and leads to protection.

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Dataset for distribution of SIDER2 elements in the Leishmania major genome and transcriptome.

scientific article published on 10 January 2017

Differential CD86 and CD40 co-stimulatory molecules and cytokine expression pattern induced by Trypanosoma cruzi in APCs from resistant or susceptible mice

scientific article published on 01 January 2003

Differential phenotypic and functional profiles of TcCA-2 -specific cytotoxic CD8+ T cells in the asymptomatic versus cardiac phase in Chagasic patients.

scientific article published on 27 March 2015

Dynamics of T cells repertoire during Trypanosoma cruzi infection and its post-treatment modulation

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Effect of secondary anchor amino acid substitutions on the immunogenic properties of an HLA-A*0201-restricted T cell epitope derived from the Trypanosoma cruzi KMP-11 protein

scientific article published on 5 February 2016

Expression of inhibitory receptors and polyfunctional responses of T cells are linked to the risk of congenital transmission of T. cruzi

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Genomic cartography and proposal of nomenclature for the repeated, interspersed elements of the Leishmania major SIDER2 family and identification of SIDER2-containing transcripts.

scientific article published on 26 December 2016

Identification of HLA-A∗02:01-restricted CTL epitopes in Trypanosoma cruzi heat shock protein-70 recognized by Chagas disease patients.

scientific article published on 12 June 2011

Identification of a Trypanosoma cruzi antigenic epitope implicated in the infectivity of fibroblast LLC-MK2 cells.

scientific article published on January 1997

Identification of a type I nitroreductase gene in non-virulent Trypanosoma rangeli.

scientific article published on July 2017

Immunogenicity of HSP-70, KMP-11 and PFR-2 leishmanial antigens in the experimental model of canine visceral leishmaniasis

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Immunological and structural characterization of an epitope from the Trypanosoma cruzi KMP-11 protein

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Impact of benznidazole treatment on the functional response of Trypanosoma cruzi antigen-specific CD4+CD8+ T cells in chronic Chagas disease patients.

scientific article published on 11 May 2018

Inhibitory Receptor Expression on CD8+ T Cells Is Linked to Functional Responses against Trypanosoma cruzi Antigens in Chronic Chagasic Patients.

scientific article published on 18 September 2015

L1Tc non-LTR retrotransposons from Trypanosoma cruzi contain a functional viral-like self-cleaving 2A sequence in frame with the active proteins they encode

scientific article published on 01 June 2006

Longitudinal monitoring of anti-saliva antibodies as markers of repellent efficacy against Phlebotomus perniciosus and Phlebotomus papatasi in dogs

scientific article published on 18 November 2018

Molecular and immunological characterization of L14 ribosomal protein from Leishmania braziliensis.

scientific article published in February 2004

Molecular characterization of KMP11 from Trypanosoma cruzi: a cytoskeleton-associated protein regulated at the translational level

scientific article published on 01 January 2000

Molecular characterization of the histone H2A gene from the parasite Trypanosoma rangeli.

scientific article published in November 2000

Molecular characterization of the kinetoplastid membrane protein-11 genes from the parasite Trypanosoma rangeli

scientific article published on 01 June 2005

Molecular characterization of the short interspersed repetitive element SIRE in the six discrete typing units (DTUs) of Trypanosoma cruzi.

scientific article published on 28 June 2012

Multiprimer PCR system for differential identification of mycobacteria in clinical samples.

scientific article published on February 1996

One-year follow-up of anti-Leishmania antibody concentrations in serum and saliva from experimentally infected dogs

scientific article published on 13 September 2019

Performance of Leishmania PFR1 recombinant antigen in serological diagnosis of asymptomatic canine leishmaniosis by ELISA

scientific article published on 23 October 2017

Phenotypic and Functional Profiles of Antigen-Specific CD4 and CD8 T Cells Associated With Infection Control in Patients With Cutaneous Leishmaniasis

scientific article published on 19 November 2018

Plasticity of the histone H2A genes in a Brazilian and six Colombian strains of Trypanosoma cruzi.

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Promiscuous Recognition of a Trypanosoma cruzi CD8+ T Cell Epitope among HLA-A2, HLA-A24 and HLA-A1 Supertypes in Chagasic Patients.

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Rabbit serum against K1 peptide, an immunogenic epitope of the Trypanosoma cruzi KMP-11, decreases parasite invasion to cells

scientific article published on 08 June 2012

Reverse transcriptase-like activity in Trypanosoma cruzi

scientific article published on 01 February 1997

Risk factors and primary prevention of congenital Chagas disease in a nonendemic country.

scientific article published on 24 October 2012

Sensitive detection of cereal fractions that are toxic to celiac disease patients by using monoclonal antibodies to a main immunogenic wheat peptide

scientific article published on 01 February 2008

Sequence polymorphism in the Trypanosoma rangeli HSP70 coding genes allows typing of the parasite KP1(+) and KP1(−) groups

scientific article published on 16 January 2013

Serum proteome of dogs at subclinical and clinical onset of canine leishmaniosis

scientific article published on 26 September 2019

Short-term follow-up of chagasic patients after benzonidazole treatment using multiple serological markers.

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Single Amino Acid Substitutions Disrupt Tetramer Formation in the Dihydroneopterin Aldolase Enzyme ofPneumocystis carinii†

scientific article published on 01 August 1998

TBP and SNAP50 transcription factors bind specifically to the Pr77 promoter sequence from trypanosomatid non-LTR retrotransposons

scientific article published on 09 June 2021

The L1Tc C-terminal domain from Trypanosoma cruzi non-long terminal repeat retrotransposon codes for a protein that bears two C2H2 zinc finger motifs and is endowed with nucleic acid chaperone activity.

scientific article published on November 2005

The L1Tc non-LTR retrotransposon of Trypanosoma cruzi contains an internal RNA-pol II-dependent promoter that strongly activates gene transcription and generates unspliced transcripts.

scientific article published on 16 March 2007

The Trypanosomatid Pr77-hallmark contains a downstream core promoter element essential for transcription activity of the Trypanosoma cruzi L1Tc retrotransposon.

scientific article published on 9 February 2016

The effect of temperature on the stability of the synthetic SPf(66)n malaria vaccine.

scientific article published in September 1995

The endonuclease NL1Tc encoded by the LINE L1Tc from Trypanosoma cruzi protects parasites from daunorubicin DNA damage.

scientific article published in April 2003

The immunization of A2/K(b) transgenic mice with the KMP11-HSP70 fusion protein induces CTL response against human cells expressing the T. cruzi KMP11 antigen: identification of A2-restricted epitopes

scientific article published on 01 August 2001

The innate immune response status correlates with a divergent clinical course in congenital Chagas disease of twins born in a non-endemic country.

scientific article published on 19 August 2014

The non-LTR (long terminal repeat) retrotransposon L1Tc from Trypanosoma cruzi codes for a protein with RNase H activity.

scientific article published on 30 May 2002

The stability and maturation of the H2A histone mRNAs from Trypanosoma cruzi are implicated in their post-transcriptional regulation

scientific article published on 01 January 2000

The wide expansion of hepatitis delta virus-like ribozymes throughout trypanosomatid genomes is linked to the spreading of L1Tc/ingi clade mobile elements.

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Trypanosoma cruzi genotyping supports a common source of infection in a school-related oral outbreak of acute Chagas disease in Venezuela.

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Trypanosoma cruzi heat-shock protein-70 kDa,alone or fused to the parasite KMP11 antigen, induces functional maturation of murine dendritic cells

scientific article published on 01 June 2002

Trypanosoma cruzi paraflagellar rod proteins 2 and 3 contain immunodominant CD8(+) T-cell epitopes that are recognized by cytotoxic T cells from Chagas disease patients.

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[Chromosomal localization of the KMP-11 genes in the KP1(+) and KP1(-) strains of Trypanosoma rangeli]

scientific article published on 01 June 2004

[Expression of markers on dendritic cells from chronic chagasic patients stimulated with the KMP-11 protein and the K1 peptide from Trypanosoma cruzi]

scientific article published on 01 January 2007