Heterologous Infection During Chagas' Disease

GUSTAVO J. SIBONA; C. A. CONDAT; S. COSSI ISASI

AIP Conference Proceedings 913: Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics and Nonlinear Physics

American Institute of Physics

Lugar: Melville, USA; Año: 2007; p. 145 - 150

Human populations are often infected with more than one parasite strain. This is frequently the case with Chagas disease, which is endemic to large regions of Latin America. In the present work we study the dynamics of the heterologous infection for this disease, using a model for the interaction between the trypanosoma cruzi parasite and the immune system. We find the dependence of the nature of the post-acute stage on the parameters characterizing the inoculated infectious strains.