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Congenital Chagas Disease in the United States: Cost Savings Through Maternal Screening [PDF]
, 2018 Chagas disease, caused by Trypanosoma cruzi, is transmitted by insect vectors through transfusions, transplants, insect feces in food, and from mother to child during gestation.
Bialek, Stephanie R. +3 more
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Prognosis of chronic Chagas heart disease and other pending clinical challenges
Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2022 In this chapter, the main prognostic markers of Chagas heart disease are addressed, with an emphasis on the most recent findings and questions, establishing the basis for a broad discussion of recommendations and new approaches to managing Chagas ...
R. M. Torres +13 more
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Novel cruzain inhibitors for the treatment of Chagas' disease. [PDF]
, 2012 The protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, the etiological agent of Chagas' disease, affects millions of individuals and continues to be an important global health concern.
Arkin, Michelle R +6 more
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Postgraduate Medical Journal, 2006 Abstract Chagas disease is the clinical condition triggered by infection with the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi. The infection is transmitted by triatomine insects while blood feeding on a human host. Field studies predict that one third of an estimated 18 million T cruzi-infected humans in Latin America will die of Chagas disease.
A R L, Teixeira +4 more
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Inmunodiagnóstico de la infección chagásica por ELlSA
Biomédica: revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud, 1999 La demostración del agente infeccioso es la regla de oro en las parasitosis, pero, esto no siempre es factible. Por ello, en la infección chagásica ce recurre a la detección de anticuerpos contra Trypanosoma cruzi siendo las pruebas serodiagnósticas de ...
Myriam C. López +8 more
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Contemporary characteristics and outcomes in chagasic heart failure compared with other nonischemic and ischemic cardiomyopathy [PDF]
, 2017 Background: Chagas’ disease is an important cause of cardiomyopathy in Latin America. We aimed to compare clinical characteristics and outcomes in patients with heart failure (HF) with reduced ejection fraction caused by Chagas’ disease, with other ...
Claudio R. Gimpelewicz +17 more
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Different serological cross-reactivity of Trypanosoma rangeli forms in Trypanosoma cruzi-infected patients sera [PDF]
, 2008 Background American Trypanosomiasis or Chagas disease is caused by Trypanosoma cruzi which currently infects approximately 16 million people in the Americas causing high morbidity and mortality.
de Moraes, Milene H. +7 more
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The Case for the Development of a Chagas Disease Vaccine: Why? How? When?
Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2021 Chagas disease is a major neglected tropical disease, transmitted predominantly by triatomine insect vectors, but also through congenital and oral routes. While endemic in the Americas, it has turned into a global disease.
Eric Dumonteil, Claudia P Herrera
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Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2023 Introdução/objetivos: Dentre as doenças infecciosas de grande importância para a saúde pública, a gripe ou influenza desempenha um papel significativo nos índices de morbidade e mortalidade em todo o mundo.
Wanderley Dias das Chagas Junior +12 more
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Canine Trypanosoma cruzi infection in the Bolivian Chaco [PDF]
, 2018 A cross-sectional study on Trypanosoma cruzi was carried out in 2013 to evaluate the role of dogs as possible source of infection for humans in two rural communities of the highly endemic Bolivian Chaco (Bartolo, Chuquisaca Department, n = 57 dogs; and ...
Bartoloni, Alessandro +9 more
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