Mechanical characterization of trypanosoma cruzi flagellum under shear stress conditions

The biophysical analysis of host pathogen interactions can offer insight of the adhesion processes and synthesis of new medicine. Parasites are subjected to intense shear of heterogeneous media in arteries and veins, thus, is interesting to understand their mechanism of adhesion. These mechanisms under force have been well characterized in bacteria and leukocytes, however, for parasites this mechanism is still unknown. In the following work, the behavior of the parasite is analyzed under the influence of numerous shear stresses.

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