title: Inefficient complement system clearance of Trypanosoma cruzi metacyclic trypomastigotes enables resistant strains to invade eukaryotic cells.
authors.affiliation: Laboratório de Biologia Molecular de Parasitas e Vetores, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz - Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
authors.forename: Igor
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Cestari
authors.forename: Marcel I
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: Ramirez
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002522:Chlorocebus aethiops; D003166:Complement Activating Enzymes / Q000378:metabolism; D015922:Complement C1q / Q000378:metabolism; D003176:Complement C3 / Q000378:metabolism; D003179:Complement C3b / Q000378:metabolism; D015935:Complement C4b / Q000378:metabolism; D004797:Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay / Q000379:methods; D007700:Kinetics; D037102:Lectins / Q000737:chemistry; D008099:Liver / Q000473:pathology; D008954:Models, Biological; D014349:Trypanosoma cruzi / Q000378:metabolism*; D014643:Variant Surface Glycoproteins, Trypanosoma / Q000378:metabolism*; D014709:Vero Cells; D000097604:Ficolins
chemical_list: D003166:Complement Activating Enzymes; D015922:Complement C1q; D003176:Complement C3; D003179:Complement C3b; D015935:Complement C4b; D037102:Lectins; D014643:Variant Surface Glycoproteins, Trypanosoma; D000097604:Ficolins; C070842:trypomastigote specific surface antigen