A High-Fat Diet Exacerbates the Course of Experimental Trypanosoma cruzi Infection That Can Be Mitigated by Treatment with Simvastatin

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The high-fat diet increases the parasitemia curve. (a) Number of circulating parasites. White symbols: animals fed with normolipidic diet with and without simvastatin treatment; black symbols: animals fed with high-fat diet with and without simvastatin treatment. (b) Area under the parasitemia curve during 30 days of Trypanosoma cruzi infection in C57BL/6 mice. White bars: animals fed with normolipidic diet with and without simvastatin treatment; black bars: animals fed with high-fat diet with and without simvastatin treatment. Data are error of the mean (SEM).

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