Abstract
Taking for granted the sensitivity of the Quantitative Buffy Coat (QBC) system, as documented in a murine experimental model, we assayed to detect Trypanosoma cruzi in the peripheral blood of 100 patients with Chagas disease in its chronic phase. By means of the method, no positivity occurred, evently as a consequence of small parasitemias, undetectable by this technique as assessed by the cases in consideration.
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