Human Leucocyte Antigen-G (HLA-G) and Its Murine Functional Homolog Qa2 in the Trypanosoma cruzi Infection

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Survival, parasite load, and parasitism of T. cruzi infected mice. The male 8-week-old BALB/c and C57BL/6 mice were intraperitoneally infected with 10³ or 10² bloodstream CL strain forms for acute and early chronic infections, respectively. For acute infection, the survival was observed daily during 35 days (a) and for early chronic infection the survival was observed daily during 60 days (b). The parasite load was determined in the heart at day 24 after infection for acute infection (c) and at day 60 after infection for early chronic infection (d). Parasitemia was quantified microscopically for 29 days (e). The data represent the mean ± SEM ( mice/group). , comparison between BALB/c and C57BL/6 infected mice.

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