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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Martin DL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3997359 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
PloS one 20140423 4
While Trypanosoma cruzi, the etiologic agent of Chagas disease, is typically vector-borne, infection can also occur through solid organ transplantation or transfusion of contaminated blood products. The ability of infected human cells, tissues, and cellular and tissue-based products (HCT/Ps) to transmit T. cruzi is dependent upon T. cruzi surviving the processing and storage conditions to which HCT/Ps are subjected. In the studies reported here, T. cruzi trypomastigotes remained infective 24 hou ...[more]