Chagas disease

Chagas disease
Photomicrograph of Giemsa-stained Trypanosoma cruzi crithidia (CDC)
ICD-10	B57
ICD-9	086
DiseasesDB	13415
MedlinePlus	001372
MeSH	D014355

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History and Symptoms | Physical Examination | Staging | Laboratory tests | Electrocardiogram | X Rays | CT | MRI Echocardiography or Ultrasound | Other images | Alternative diagnostics

Treatment

Medical therapy | Surgical options | Primary prevention | Secondary prevention | Financial costs | Future therapies

See also

• Tropical disease
• Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative
• Distinguish from: Chaga mushroom

References

• CDC, Division of Parasitic Diseases. Chagas Disease Fact Sheet. (23 September 2004). Accessed 24 September 2006.
• Dumonteil E, Escobedo-Ortegon J, Reyes-Rodriguez N, Arjona-Torres A, Ramirez-Sierra M (2004). "Immunotherapy of Trypanosoma cruzi infection with DNA vaccines in mice". Infect Immun. 72 (1): 46–53. PMID 14688079.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• CDC, Division of Parasitic Diseases.Chagas Disease(23 October 2007). Accessed 16 August 2007.
• CDC, Division of Parasitic Diseases.Chagas Disease Epidemiology.(23 October 2007). Accessed 16 August 2007.
• CDC, Division of Parasitic Diseases. Treatment(23 October 2007). Accessed 16 August 2007.

Further reading

• Coutinho M (1999). "Ninety years of Chagas disease: a success story at the periphery". Soc Stud Sci. 29 (4): 519–49. PMID 11623933.
• Dias J, Silveira A, Schofield C (2002). "The impact of Chagas disease control in Latin America: a review". Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz. 97 (5): 603–12. PMID 12219120.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Kropf S, Azevedo N, Ferreira L (2003). "Biomedical research and public health in Brazil: the case of Chagas' disease (1909–50)". Soc Hist Med. 16 (1): 111–29. PMID 14598820.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• "International Symposium to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the discovery of Chagas disease (Rio de Janeiro, April 11–16, 1999)". Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. 94 (Suppl. I). 1999.
• Moncayo A. "Progress towards interruption of transmission of Chagas disease". Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz. 94 Suppl 1: 401–4. PMID 10677765.
• Prata A. "Evolution of the clinical and epidemiological knowledge about Chagas disease 90 years after its discovery". Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz. 94 Suppl 1: 81–8. PMID 10677694.
• Franco-Paredes C (2007). "Chagas disease: an impediment in achieving the Millennium Development Goals in Latin America". BMC International Health and Human Rights. 7: 7. PMID 17725836.
• Kevin M. Tyler & Michael A. Miles (ed.). World Class Parasites. Volume 7: American Trypanosomiasis. Kluwer Academic Publishers. ISBN 1-4020-7323-2. Amazon review

External links

• VCU Virtual Parasite Project
• All About Chagas Disease, Chagas' disease Information & Prevention, Identification, also in Spanish.
• Chagaspace, also in Spanish.
• ChagMex: Database on-line. UNAM-Instituto de Biología.
• Chagas Disease. PanAmerican Health Organization.
• Disease Information. American Trypanosomiasis or Chagas' Disease. Travel Medicine Program. Health Canada.
• Links to Chagas' Disease pictures (Hardin MD/Univ of Iowa)
• Link to "The Kiss of Death". An anthropological view of Chagas' disease (Joseph Bastien/Univ of Texas at Arlington).

Recent news and events

• Chagas' disease parasite found in desert blood samples
• Chagas Control in the Southern Cone Countries: History of an International Initiative, 1991/2001, PAHO. (Full text e-book)
• Genome Sequencing Project
• Parasites' genetic code 'cracked' From BBC
• Catholic Relief Services. Housing Improvement and Chagas' Disease Prevention Project
• 2006: Nature.com / Scott M. Landfear: Flagella are whip-like structures that power the movement of certain cells. Analysis of a single-cell parasite, the African trypanosome, reveals that flagella are also essential for viability in this organism. (restricted commercial access now)
• Science Magazine Search Results: Chagas

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