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Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia, 2007 FUNDAMENTO: Dados da literatura sobre a concomitância da doença de Chagas e hipertensão arterial são controversos e, quando presentes, não se referem à repercussão da simultaneidade na história natural da doença de Chagas ou na hipertensão.
Cristina Brandt Friedrich Martin Gurgel +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 +7 more
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Perspectives on the Trypanosoma cruzi-host cell receptor interaction [PDF]
, 2009 Chagas disease is caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi. The critical initial event is the interaction of the trypomastigote form of the parasite with host receptors. This review highlights recent observations concerning these interactions.
A Belley +108 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 +15 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 TropicalBackground: 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 +5 more
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Astrocyte Apoptosis and HIV Replication Are Modulated in Host Cells Coinfected with Trypanosoma cruzi [PDF]
, 2017 The protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi is the etiological agent of Chagas disease. In immunosuppressed individuals, as it occurs in the coinfection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the central nervous system may be affected. In this regard, reactivation
Burgos, Juan Miguel +5 more
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Tolerance to nifurtimox and benznidazole in adult patients with chronic Chagas’ disease
Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 2019 Background Current options for Chagas’ disease treatment are restricted to benznidazole and nifurtimox. To the best of our knowledge, no study has ever compared their tolerance in adults in a non-endemic country.
Y. Jackson, Baptiste Wyssa, F. Chappuis
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Blood Parasites and Wildlife: The Development of a Discipline
Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.Changes in our knowledge on blood parasite infections of wild animals in the last 30 years is reviewed with emphasis on taxonomy and phylogeny, impact of infections on fitness, and distribution of blood parasites. ABSTRACT In the last 30 years, the area of the study of parasitism caused by blood parasite infections on wildlife has suffered an ...
Santiago Merino
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Molecular epidemiology of domestic and sylvatic Trypanosoma cruzi infection in rural northwestern Argentina [PDF]
, 2008 Genetic diversity of Trypanosoma cruzi populations and parasite transmission dynamics have been well documented throughout the Americas, but few studies have been conducted in the Gran Chaco ecoregion, one of the most highly endemic areas for Chagas ...
Cardinal, Marta Victoria +8 more
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Chagas disease in the Chaco [PDF]
Nature, 2010 Researching disease transmission in poor, rural settings is part scientific inquiry, part diplomacy.
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