Anna Julia Ribeiro, Kamila Alves Silva, Lucas da Silva Lopes, Carlos Ananias Aparecido Resende, Carolina Alves Petit Couto, Isadora Braga Gandra, Isabela Amorim Gonçalves Pereira, Isabelle Caroline Dos Santos Barcelos, Sabrina Paula Pereira, Sandra Rodrigues Xavier, Grasiele de Sousa Viera Tavares, Juliana Martins Machado, Mariana Campos Da Paz, Miguel Angel Chávez-Fumagalli, Eduardo Antonio Ferraz Coelho, Rodolfo Cordeiro Giunchetti, Ana Thereza Chaves, Walderez Ornelas Dutra, Ana Alice Maia Gonçalves, Alexsandro Sobreira Galdino
Chagas disease, caused by the protozoa Trypanosoma cruzi, continues to be a serious public health problem in Latin America, worsened by the limitations in its detection. Given the importance of developing new diagnostic methods for this disease, the present review aimed to verify the number of publications dedicated to research on peptides that demonstrate their usefulness in serodiagnosis. To this end, a bibliographic survey was conducted on the PubMed platform using the keyword "peptide" or "epitope" combined with "Chagas disease" or "Trypanosoma cruzi"; "diagno*" or "serodiagnosis" or "immunodiagnosis", without period restriction...
May 2, 2024: Amino Acids