Trypanosoma cruzi response to sterol biosynthesis inhibitors: morphophysiological alterations leading to cell death.

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Published in PLoS One on January 31, 2013

Authors

Rafael Luis Kessler1, Maurilio José Soares, Christian Macagnan Probst, Marco Aurélio Krieger

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1: Instituto Carlos Chagas, FIOCRUZ, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.

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