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Mortality Related to Chagas Disease and HIV/AIDS Coinfection in Brazil

Journal of Tropical Medicine, 2012
Chagas disease in patients with HIV infection represents a potentially serious event with high case fatality rates. This study describes epidemiological and clinical aspects of deaths related to Chagas disease and HIV/AIDS coinfection in Brazil, 1999 ...
Francisco Rogerlândio Martins-Melo, Alberto Novaes Ramos, Carlos Henrique Alencar, Jorg Heukelbach   +3 more
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Risks of endemicity, morbidity and perspectives regarding the control of Chagas disease in the Amazon Region

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2012
Chagas disease, in the Amazon Region as elsewhere, can be considered an enzootic disease of wild animals or an anthropozoonosis, an accidental disease of humans that is acquired when humans penetrate a wild ecosystem or when wild triatomines invade human
José Rodrigues Coura, Angela CV Junqueira   +1 more
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Discussing the Score of Cardioembolic Ischemic Stroke in Chagas Disease

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2020
Chagas disease is an important infection in Latin America but it is also reported in non-endemic countries all over the world. Around 30% of infected patients develop chronic Chagas cardiopathy, which is responsible for most poor outcomes, mainly heart ...
Fernanda de Souza Nogueira Sardinha Mendes, Mauro Felippe Felix Mediano, Rudson Santos Silva, Sergio Salles Xavier, Pedro Emmanuel Alvarenga Americano do Brasil, Roberto Magalhães Saraiva, Alejandro Marcel Hasslocher-Moreno, Andrea Silvestre de Sousa   +7 more
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WIMANET: The Power of a Network in Wildlife Malaria Research

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
The Wildlife Malaria Network (WIMANET) is an EU‐COST funded global network of researchers and stakeholders interested in wildlife malaria and related haemosporidian parasites. In this paper, we review WIMANET's activities to date. We hope this encourages new members to join the network and motivates both new and existing members to participate in its ...
Alfonso Marzal, Kasun Bodawatta, Carolina R. F. Chagas, Nayden Chakarov, Mélanie Duc, Tamara Emmenegger, Martina Ferraguti, Luz García‐Longoria, Rafael Gutiérrez‐López, Ricardo J. Lopes, Josué Martínez‐De La Puente, Swen Renner, Diego Santiago‐Alarcón, Ravinder N. M. Sehgal, Daliborka Stanković, Jenny C. Dunn   +15 more
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A Multi-disciplinary Overview of Chagas in Periurban Peru [PDF]

, 2010
There are between 8 and 11 million cases of America Human Trypanosomiasis, commonly known as Chagas disease, in Latin America. Chagas is endemic in southern Peru, especially the Arequipa region, where it has expanded from poor, rural areas to periurban ...
Angela M. Bayer, Caryn Bern, Cesar Naquira, Gabrielle C. Hunter, Juan G. Cornejo del Carpio, Michael Z. Levy, Natalie M. Bowman, Robert H. Gilman, Sarah McCune   +8 more
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Spatio-temporal trends in mortality due to Chagas disease in the State of Bahia, Brazil, from 2008 to 2018 [PDF]

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
Background: Chagas disease is a silent illness with high mortality burden in many Latin American countries, such as Brazil. Bahia has the fourth highest mortality rate in Brazil.
Cristiane Medeiros Moraes de Carvalho, Gilmar Ribeiro-Jr, Rodrigo Gurgel-Gonçalves, Liane Santiago Andrade, Cicílio Alves Moraes, Maria Aparecida Araújo Figueiredo   +5 more
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In the Spotlight—Established Researcher

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution, EarlyView.
Rodrigo Nunes‐da‐Fonseca
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A Short‐Read Amplicon Sequencing Protocol and Bioinformatic Pipeline for Ecological Surveillance of Dipteran Disease Vectors

Molecular Ecology Resources, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Vector control remains an important strategy worldwide to prevent human infection with pathogens transmitted by arthropods. Vector control strategies rely on accurate identification of vector taxa along with vector‐specific biological indicators such as feeding ecology, infection prevalence and insecticide resistance.
Raquel Lima‐Cordón, Jason Travis Mohabir, Mohini Sooklall, Aina Martinez Zurita, Meg Shieh, Cheyenne Knox, Sabrina Gobran, Zachary Johnson, Margaret Laws, Ruchit Panchal, Reza Niles‐Robin, Horace Cox, Maria Eugenia Grillet, Jorge E. Moreno, Socrates Herrera, Martha Quinones, Angela M. Early, Jacob A. Tennessen, Daniel E. Neafsey   +18 more
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Encefalitis chagásica pseudotumoral en pacientes con SIDA: presentación atípica en uno de ellos e historia de la enfermedad en una pequeña serie de casos [PDF]

, 2008
Chagas' disease is an intracellular parasitic infection owed to a protozoarium, the Trypanosoma cruzi1, affecting a large population in Latinamerica. Within the region 15 to 16 million people are infected2.
Gargiulo Monachelli, Gisella Mariana, Papayanis, Cristina, Sica, Roberto E. P.   +2 more
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Age-Standardized Mortality Rates Related to Cirrhosis in Brazil from 2000 to 2012: A Nationwide Analysis

Annals of Hepatology, 2017
Background Cirrhosis remains the most frequent liver-related cause of death worldwide and we aimed to evaluate its burden in Brazil from 2000 to 2012.Material and methods The Brazilian National Death Registry was analyzed from 2000 to 2012.
Hugo Perazzo, Antonio G. Pacheco, Raquel De Boni, Paula M. Luz, Juliana Fittipaldi, Sandra W. Cardoso, Beatriz Grinsztejn, Valdiléa G. Veloso   +7 more
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