Pathology and pathogenesis of Chagas heart disease

KM Bonney, DJ Luthringer, SA Kim… - Annual Review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Chagas heart disease is an inflammatory cardiomyopathy that develops in approximately
one-third of people infected with the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi. One way T …

The unsolved jigsaw puzzle of the immune response in Chagas disease

GR Acevedo, MC Girard, KA Gómez - Frontiers in immunology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Trypanosoma cruzi interacts with the different arms of the innate and adaptive host's immune
response in a very complex and flowery manner. The history of host-parasite co-evolution …

Enlisting the mRNA vaccine platform to combat parasitic infections

L Versteeg, MM Almutairi, PJ Hotez, J Pollet - Vaccines, 2019 - mdpi.com
Despite medical progress, more than a billion people still suffer daily from parasitic
infections. Vaccination is recognized as one of the most sustainable options to control …

[HTML][HTML] Immunity and vaccine development efforts against Trypanosoma cruzi

LE Rios, JC Vázquez-Chagoyán, AO Pacheco… - Acta tropica, 2019 - Elsevier
Trypanosoma cruzi (T. cruzi) is the causative agent for Chagas disease (CD). There is a
critical lack of methods for prevention of infection or treatment of acute infection and chronic …

A prophylactic α-Gal-based glycovaccine effectively protects against murine acute Chagas disease

S Portillo, BG Zepeda, E Iniguez, JJ Olivas, NH Karimi… - npj Vaccines, 2019 - nature.com
Chagas disease (ChD), caused by the hemoflagellate parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, affects
six to seven million people in Latin America. Lately, it has become an emerging public …

In silico Design of an Epitope-Based Vaccine Ensemble for Chagas Disease

L Michel-Todó, PA Reche, P Bigey, MJ Pinazo… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Trypanosoma cruzi infection causes Chagas disease, which affects 7 million people
worldwide. Two drugs are available to treat it: benznidazole and nifurtimox. Although both …

A Two-Component DNA-Prime/Protein-Boost Vaccination Strategy for Eliciting Long-Term, Protective T Cell Immunity against Trypanosoma cruzi

S Gupta, NJ Garg - PLoS pathogens, 2015 - journals.plos.org
In this study, we evaluated the long-term efficacy of a two-component subunit vaccine
against Trypanosoma cruzi infection. C57BL/6 mice were immunized with TcG2/TcG4 …

Use of a small molecule integrin activator as a systemically administered vaccine adjuvant in controlling Chagas disease

N Lokugamage, IH Chowdhury, RJ Biediger… - npj Vaccines, 2021 - nature.com
The development of suitable safe adjuvants to enhance appropriate antigen-driven immune
responses remains a challenge. Here we describe the adjuvant properties of a small …

α-Gal immunization positively impacts Trypanosoma cruzi colonization of heart tissue in a mouse model

GM Rodrigues da Cunha, MA Azevedo… - PLoS Neglected …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Chagas disease, caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, is considered endemic in more
than 20 countries but lacks both an approved vaccine and limited treatment for its chronic …

Immunopeptidomic MHC-I profiling and immunogenicity testing identifies Tcj2 as a new Chagas disease mRNA vaccine candidate

L Versteeg, R Adhikari, G Robinson, J Lee, J Wei… - PLoS …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Trypanosoma cruzi is a protozoan parasite that causes Chagas disease. Globally 6 to 7
million people are infected by this parasite of which 20–30% will progress to develop …