A critical evaluation of the expression of parasitemia in experimental Chagas' disease
Rev. Inst. Med. Trop. Säo Paulo
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35(5): 395-398, Set.-Out. 1993.
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ABSTRACT
This paper aims to study the best way to express the parasitemia of Trypanosoma cruzi's experimentally infected animals. Individual scores may have a great variability, not emphasized by the majority of the authors. A group of 50 rats infected with 1 x 10(6) trypomastigotes of T. cruzi Y strain was used and the parasitemia was estimated by BRENER's method. The results showed that the median can avoid false results due to very high or low parasitemias but it does not have the mathematic properties necessary for analysis of variance. The comparison of the means of the original and transformed data, with their respective coefficients of variability (CV), showed that the logarithmic mean (Mlog) have the minor value of CV. Therefore, the Mlog is the best way to express the parasitemia when the data show great variability. The number of the animal for group did not affect the variability of data when the Mlog and CV were used.
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Main subject:
Trypanosoma cruzi
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Chagas Disease
Limits:
Animals
Language:
English
Journal:
Rev. Inst. Med. Trop. Säo Paulo
Journal subject:
Tropical Medicine
Year:
1993
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Brazil
Institution/Affiliation country:
Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)/BR
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Universidade de São Paulo/BR
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