Fig. 4From: 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 IIStatistical comparisons of parasitological and molecular parameters for mice inoculated with Trypanosoma cruzi (Y strain - TcII), treated with 100 mg/kg/day of benznidazole (BZ), the essential oil of Zingiber officinale (GEO) and the combination of the two (BZ + GEO) for 20 consecutive days, and in untreated controls (NT). In the comparisons of each parameter, the percentage of mice with positive fresh blood examination (% + FBE), positive blood culture (% + BC), positive conventional PCR (% + cPCR) and positive real time PCR (% + qPCR), among the 4 experimental groups, values of p ≤ 0.05 were considered significant (Chi-square test). Number of animals per group are indicated in each collumBack to article page