Fig. 2From: Essential oils from Syzygium aromaticum and Zingiber officinale, administered alone or in combination with benznidazole, reduce the parasite load in mice orally inoculated with Trypanosoma cruzi IIMean parasitemia curves of mice orally inoculated with Trypanosoma cruzi (Y strain - TcII), treated for 20 consecutive days with 100 mg/kg/day of benznidazole (BZ), essential oil (EO), and BZ + EO, and in untreated controls (NT). Inoculum: 1 × 104 blood trypomastigotes/animal. a - EO of Syzygium aromaticum (CEO); b - EO of Zingiber officinale (GEO). Beginning of treatment: 5th day after infectionBack to article page