Helaine Graziele Santos Vieira et al.
PloS one, 9(5), e97526-e97526 (2014-05-21)
Trypanosoma cruzi, the causative agent of Chagas disease, is extremely resistant to ionizing radiation, enduring up to 1.5 kGy of gamma rays. Ionizing radiation can damage the DNA molecule both directly, resulting in double-strand breaks, and indirectly, as a consequence