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Chagas disease: a report of 17 suspected cases in Japan, 2012–2017
Tropical Medicine and Health, 2019 Background There are no reports on the prevalence of Chagas disease in Japan. Furthermore, screening programs and access to diagnosis and treatment have not been established.
Kazuo Imai +12 more
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Uncovering the Spread of Chagas Disease in Argentina and Mexico [PDF]
arXiv, 2018 Chagas disease is a neglected disease, and information about its geographical spread is very scarse. We analyze here mobility and calling patterns in order to identify potential risk zones for the disease, by using public health information and mobile phone records.
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Congenital Chagas disease in a Bolivian newborn in Bergamo (Italy) [PDF]
, 2018 Chagas disease (CD) is an uncommon disease in Europe. Its epidemiology has changed because of mass migration from Latin America to Europe. Herein we describe a congenital case of CD in a Bolivian newborn in Bergamo, the main city of residence for the ...
Bargiggia, Graziano +6 more
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Therapeutic Advances in Infectious Disease, 2022 Background: Chagas disease is one of the leading causes of heart failure (HF) in Latin Americans, and there are limited data available that examine related costs of care for patients with HF.
Mario J. Olivera +5 more
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Analysis of dysautonomia in patients with Chagas Cardiomyopathy [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 Chagas disease American trypanosomiasis is caused by a flagellated parasite: trypanosoma cruzi, transmitted by an insect of the genus Triatoma and also by blood transfusions. In Latin America the number of infected people is approximately 6 million, with a population exposed to the risk of infection of 550000.
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Equiaffine structure on frontals [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 In this paper, we generalize the idea of equiaffine structure to the case of frontals and we define the Blaschke vector field of a frontal. We also investigate some necessary and sufficient conditions that a frontal needs to satisfy to have a Blaschke vector field and provide some examples.
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Chagas Disease Diagnostic Applications: Present Knowledge and Future Steps [PDF]
, 2016 Chagas disease, caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, is a lifelong and debilitating illness of major significance throughout Latin America and an emergent threat to global public health.
Balouz, Virginia +2 more
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Zoo Biology, EarlyView.We use Bothrops jararacussu as a model to introduce three different prey items (mice, exotic anuran – bullfrog and native anurans) in captivity. Our experiments indicated that native anurans could be an interesting food alternative to B. jararacussu and other Bothrops species with an ontogenetic diet in captivity.
Taís Vasques Torrents +3 more
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Queueing Analysis of a Chagas Disease Control Campaign [PDF]
arXiv, 2017 A critical component of preventing the spread of vector borne diseases such as Chagas disease are door-to-door campaigns by public health officials that implement insecticide application in order to eradicate the vector infestation of households. The success of such campaigns depends on adequate household participation during the active phase as well ...
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Early detection of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction in Chagas' disease [PDF]
, 2006 BACKGROUND: Chagas' disease may cause left ventricular diastolic dysfunction and its early detection in asymptomatic patients would allow to stratify the risk and to optimize medical treatment.
AC Pereira Barretto +23 more
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