The challenge of Chagas' disease: has the human pathogen, Trypanosoma cruzi, learned how to modulate signaling events to subvert host cells?

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Published in N Biotechnol on February 19, 2010

Authors

F M Lima1, P Oliveira, R A Mortara, J F Silveira, D Bahia

Author Affiliations

1: Departamento de Microbiologia, Imunologia e Parasitologia, Escola Paulista de Medicina, UNIFESP, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.

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