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Long-term follow-up of a patient since the acute phase of Chagas disease (South American trypanosomiasis): further treatment and cure of the infection [PDF]

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2015
A woman had been followed since 1957 for acute phase Chagas disease. Parasitological and serological tests were positive, and treatment included benznidazole in 1974.
João Carlos Pinto Dias, Emmanuel Dias, Genard Carneiro da Cunha Nóbrega   +2 more
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Purified Trypanosoma cruzi specific glycoprotein for discriminative serological diagnosis of South American trypanosomiasis (Chagas' disease) [PDF]

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1990
F. Guhl
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American Trypanosomiasis Infection in Fattening Pigs from the South‐East of Mexico [PDF]

Zoonoses and Public Health, 2012
SummaryAmerican Trypanosomiasis (AT) is an infectious parasitic disease produced by the protozoa Trypanosoma cruzi (T. cruzi). Infection is acquired by vectorial via but can also be transmitted congenitally, by ingestion of an infected host, by transfusion with contaminated blood or transplant of organs from an infected donor.
M, Jiménez-Coello, K Y, Acosta-Viana, E, Guzman-Marin, A, Ortega-Pacheco   +3 more
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Trypanosoma cruzi Parasite Load Modulates the Circadian Activity Pattern of Triatoma infestans

Insects, 2022
American trypanosomiasis is a disease caused by the flagellate protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, which is transmitted mainly in endemic areas by blood-sucking triatomine vectors.
Francisco Chacón, Catalina Muñoz-San Martín, Antonella Bacigalupo, Bárbara Álvarez-Duhart, Rigoberto Solís, Pedro E. Cattan   +5 more
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Infecção chagásica transfusional detectada no programa de controle da doença de Chagas no Estado de São Paulo (Brasil) Transfusional chagasic infection detected during the execution of a program for the control of Chagas' disease in the State of S. Paulo (Brazil)

Revista de Saúde Pública, 1992
O sistema de vigilância da doença de Chagas no Estado de São Paulo propõe investigação minuciosa da presença de triatomíneos nos domicílios, que inclui o controle sorológico de populações moradoras em unidades domiciliares associadas a focos potenciais ...
Dalva Marli Valério Wandertey, Maria Esther de Carvalho, Ézio Mantegazza, Sueli Yasumaru, Luiz Carlos Barradas Barata   +4 more
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Preferência alimentar (entre sangue humano e ave) dos Triatoma sordida encontrados em casas habitadas da região norte do Estado de São Paulo - Brasil Some considerations on the blood ingestion preference (between human or bird source) of Triatoma sordida that were found in inhabited houses, in the north regions of the State of S. Paulo - Brazil

Revista de Saúde Pública, 1977
São apresentados os resultados dos testes de precipitina contra soro anti-sangue humano e anti-sangue ave, realizados com 550 exemplares do T. sordida, capturados nas casas habitadas das Regionais: Ribeirão Preto e São José do Rio Preto.
Eduardo Olavo da Rocha e Silva, José Maria Pacheco de Souza, José Carlos Rehder de Andrade, Cassio da Silva Mello, Octávio Alves Ferreira   +4 more
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Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) for lineage assignment and high resolution diversity studies in Trypanosoma cruzi. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2011
Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) is a powerful and highly discriminatory method for analysing pathogen population structure and epidemiology. Trypanosoma cruzi, the protozoan agent of American trypanosomiasis (Chagas disease), has remarkable genetic and
Matthew Yeo, Isabel L Mauricio, Louisa A Messenger, Michael D Lewis, Martin S Llewellyn, Nidia Acosta, Tapan Bhattacharyya, Patricio Diosque, Hernan J Carrasco, Michael A Miles   +9 more
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The history of Chagas disease

Parasites & Vectors, 2014
The ancestor of Trypanosome cruzi was probably introduced to South American via bats approximately 7-10 million years ago. When the first humans arrived in the New World, a sylvatic cycle of Chagas disease was then already well established ...
Dietmar Steverding
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APOL1 risk variants and kidney disease: what we know so far

Brazilian Journal of Nephrology, 2018
There are striking differences in chronic kidney disease between Caucasians and African descendants. It was widely accepted that this occurred due to socioeconomic factors, but recent studies show that apolipoprotein L-1 (APOL1) gene variants are ...
Tobias August Siemens, Miguel Carlos Riella, Thyago Proença de Moraes, Cristian Vidal Riella   +3 more
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Sorologia positiva para sífilis, toxoplasmose e doença de Chagas em gestantes de primeira consulta em centros de saúde de área metropolitana, Brasil Positive sorology of syphilis, toxoplasmosis and Chagas' disease in pregnant women on their first visit to State Health Centes in a metropolitan area, Brazil

Revista de Saúde Pública, 1990
Alguns testes sorológicos têm sido utilizados para detectar, indiretamente, a presença de possíveis agentes etiológicos infecciosos durante a gestação, que sendo transmitidos ao feto, por via placentária, causam infecções congênitas com seqüelas leves ou
Adelaide José Vaz, Elvira Maria Guerra, Luzia Cristina Contim Ferratto, Leiliana Aparecida Stoppa de Toledo, Raymundo Soares de Azevedo Neto   +4 more
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