Article
Brain schistosomiasis in mice experimentally infected with Schistosoma mansoni
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LAMBERTUCCI, José Roberto et al. Brain schistosomiasis in mice experimentally infected with Schistosoma mansoni. Rev. Soc. Bras. Med. Trop., Uberaba, v. 47, n. 2, 2014 .
0037-8682
10.1590/0037-8682-0083-2013
Author
Lambertucci, José Roberto
Fidelis, Thiago André
Pereira, Thiago Almeida
Coelho, Paulo Marcos Zech
Pereira, Neusa Araújo
Souza, Márcia Maria de
Brasileiro Filho, Geraldo
Pereira, Fausto Edmundo Lima
Antunes, Carlos Mauricio
Abstract
Introduction: Human neuroschistosomiasis has been reported in the literature, but the possibility of modeling neuroschistosomiasis in mice is controversial.
Methods: In two research laboratories in Brazil that maintain the Schistosoma mansoni life cycle in rodents, two mice developed signs of brain disease (hemiplegia and spinning), and both were autopsied.
Results: S. mansoni eggs, both with and without granuloma formation, were observed in the brain and meninges of both mice by optical microscopy.
Conclusions: This is the first description of eggs in the brains of symptomatic mice that were experimentally infected with S. mansoni. An investigation of experimental neuroschistosomiasis is now feasible.