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Why does Chagas' disease form a mass in the cavity of immunosuppressed patients?

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In immunosuppressed patients (see AIDS ) Chagas' disease can form a mass in the cranial cavity that mimics a tumor, presumably because the lymphocytes that guard against the parasite are the same that are depleted by the AIDS virus.

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