Chagas disease: Immunology of the disease at a glance

AC Cristovão-Silva, MCA Brelaz-de-Castro… - Cytokine & Growth …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Chagas disease is an important neglected disease that affects 6–7 million people
worldwide. The disease has two phases: acute and chronic, in which there are different …

Cytokine networks as targets for preventing and controlling Chagas heart disease

CC Koh, EGA Neves, TG de Souza-Silva, AC Carvalho… - Pathogens, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
Chagas disease, a neglected disease caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, is
endemic in 21 Latin American countries, affecting 6–8 million people. Increasing numbers of …

Disease Tolerance and Pathogen Resistance Genes May Underlie Trypanosoma cruzi Persistence and Differential Progression to Chagas Disease Cardiomyopathy

C Chevillard, JPS Nunes, AF Frade… - Frontiers in …, 2018‏ - frontiersin.org
Chagas disease is caused by infection with the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi and affects
over 8 million people worldwide. In spite of a powerful innate and adaptive immune …

Pathogenesis of chronic Chagas disease: macrophages, mitochondria, and oxidative stress

M Lopez, HB Tanowitz, NJ Garg - Current clinical microbiology reports, 2018‏ - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Trypanosoma cruzi is the causative agent of Chagas disease.
Decades after initial infection,~ 30% of individuals can develop chronic chagasic …

CCR5 and CCR5Δ32 in bacterial and parasitic infections: Thinking chemokine receptors outside the HIV box

JH Ellwanger, VL Kaminski… - International Journal …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
The CCR5 molecule was reported in 1996 as the main HIV‐1 co‐receptor. In that same year,
the CCR5Δ32 genetic variant was described as a strong protective factor against HIV‐1 …

Differential expression profile of genes involved in the immune response associated to progression of chronic Chagas disease

I Gómez, MC López, A Egui, G Palacios… - PLOS Neglected …, 2023‏ - journals.plos.org
Background Patients with chronic Chagas disease present marked clinical and
immunological heterogeneity. During the disease, multiple immune mechanisms are …

[HTML][HTML] Genomic medicine in Chagas disease

M Acosta-Herrera, M Strauss, D Casares-Marfil… - Acta tropica, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Genetic approaches have been proposed for improving the understanding of the causes of
differential susceptibility to Trypanosoma cruzi infection and Chagas disease outcome …

CCR5Δ32 in Brazil: Impacts of a European genetic variant on a highly admixed population

B Kulmann-Leal, JH Ellwanger, JAB Chies - Frontiers in Immunology, 2021‏ - frontiersin.org
The genetic background of Brazilians encompasses Amerindian, African, and European
components as a result of the colonization of an already Amerindian inhabited region by …

Determination of the Th1, Th2, Th17, and Treg cytokine profile in patients with chronic Chagas heart disease and systemic arterial hypertension

RB Bestetti, R Dellalibera-Joviliano, GS Lopes… - Heart and vessels, 2019‏ - Springer
Chronic Chagas heart disease (CCHD affects about 30% of patients with chronic Chagas
disease (CCD). Systemic arterial hypertension (SAH) afflicts about 25% of patients with …

Increased frequencies of circulating CCR5+ memory T cells are correlated to chronic chagasic cardiomyopathy progression

E Roffe, LI Dos Santos, MO Santos… - Journal of Leukocyte …, 2019‏ - academic.oup.com
The infection with the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi causes Chagas disease, a
neglected tropical disease in Latin America and an imported emerging disease worldwide …