Characterization of Trypanosoma cruzi mucinase: structure, properties and function in oral infection by metacyclic forms

• Grant number: 04/07172-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: October 01, 2004
• End date: September 30, 2007
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Parasitology - Protozoology of Parasites
• Principal Investigator: Nobuko Yoshida
• Grantee: Mauro Javier Cortez Véliz
• Host Institution: Escola Paulista de Medicina (EPM). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus São Paulo. São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 02/13705-8 - Molecular basis of Trypanosoma cruzi infection: mechanisms and comparison of two phylogenetically distinct parasite lineages, AP.TEM