Exudative Trypanosome Pleuritis of Mice Infected Experimentally with Trypanosoma cruzi.

Abstract

In exptl. infections of mice with T. cruzi the occurrence of an exudative pleuritis was observed. The clear bacteriologically sterile exudate contained trypanosome forms as well as intracellular leishmania-like inclusion bodies. The frequency of pleuritis seemed to depend on the number of parasites in the inoculum and varied from 3.6% after a light intra-abdominal infection to 50% after heavy infections.