Pathogenesis of Chagas disease: time to move on.

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Published in Front Biosci (Elite Ed) on January 01, 2012

Authors

Fabiana S Machado1, Kevin M Tyler, Fatima Brant, Lisia Esper, Mauro M Teixeira, Herbert B Tanowitz

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Biochemistry and Immunology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

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