Figure 5

Effect of diet on survival post infection with Trypanosomiasis cruzi (A) Mice were fed a regular diet until d 56 preinfection, when half were switched to a high-fat diet for the duration of the experiment. At d 0, half the mice in each of the two diet groups were infected with T. cruzi. With the high-fat diet, about 80% of the mice survived, while around 40% of the regular-diet mice survived (32). (B) Similar results were observed when the high-fat diet was started 56, 28 and 1 d before infection and continued for 42 d post infection (33).