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Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2023 Chagas disease is currently present in many non-endemic countries and remains a neglected tropical disease globally. A review of the literature identified significant gaps and scarcity of updated information from European countries, with most studies reporting data from Spain and Italy.
Marta Gonzalez-Sanz +5 more
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Annals of Intensive Care, 2017 Background Early-onset ventilator-associated pneumonia (EO-VAP) is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in comatose patients. However, VAP prevention bundles focus mainly on late-onset VAP and may be less effective in preventing EO-VAP in ...
Cássia Righy +4 more
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Current knowledge of Chagas-related heart disease among pediatric cardiologists in the United States
BMC Cardiovascular Disorders, 2021 Background Chagas disease is a pathogenic parasitic infection with approximately 8 million cases worldwide and greater than 300,000 cases in the United States (U.S.).
Sanchi Malhotra +4 more
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Access to diagnosis and treatment of Chagas disease/infection in endemic and non-endemic countries in the XXI century. [PDF]
, 2007 In this article, Médicos Sin Fronteras (MSF) Spain faces the challenge of selecting, piecing together, and conveying in the clearest possible way, the main lessons learnt over the course of the last seven years in the world of medical care for Chagas ...
Albajar-Vinas, P +4 more
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Acute chagas disease: new global challenges for an old neglected disease. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2014 Chagas disease is caused by infection with the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, and although over 100 years have passed since the discovery of Chagas disease, it still presents an increasing problem for global public health.
Daniela V Andrade +2 more
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Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia, 1999 Chagas’ disease is a protozoan infection caused by Trypanosoma cruzi and is mainly acquired by vectorial transmission in endemic areas, when infected excreta of Triatominae bugs are inoculated into the sting site or neighbouring mucous membranes of the victim.
Marin-Neto, José Antonio +2 more
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Gates Open Research, 2019 Chagas disease (CD) persists as one of the neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) with a particularly large impact in the Americas. The World Health Organization (WHO) recently proposed goals for CD elimination as a public health problem to be reached by ...
Collaborating Group on Chagas Disease Modelling
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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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Indian Pacing and Electrophysiology Journal, 2014 Objective: The goal of this study was to examine the association between ECG repolarization parameters and mortality in Chagas disease (CD) patients living in the United States.
Jason Bradfield, MD +6 more
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Clinical Cardiology, 2000 AbstractChagas' disease is caused by a protozoan parasite, Trypanosoma cruzi, that is transmitted to humans through the feces of infected bloodsucking insects in endemic areas of Latin America, or occasionally by nonvectorial mechanisms, such as blood transfusion.
A, Rassi, A, Rassi, W C, Little
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