Chagas disease in the state of Paraná.

In March 2006 a lethal case of ACD - a six-year-old boy from the municipality of Itaporanga - was notified to the Center for Epidemiological Surveillance of

Although the rates of MHC-loading and surface expression may vary from one type of host cell to another, it is rea- sonable to predict that the most infected target cells should

Therefore, both parasites and heart tissue appear to be important to explain diffuse and progressive inflammatory lesions of the cardiac form, since parasites outside the heart

The main vector species present important similarities in Venezuela and Colombia and in Ecuador and Northern Peru and they can be approached in a similar way throughout the

Initiative for Chagas Disesae Surveillance and Preven- tion in the Amazon (AMCHA), officially launched under the auspices of the PAHO-WHO in 2004, public health researchers

Natural infection of Nine-Banded Armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus tezanus), House Mice (Mus musculus), Opossum (Didelphis virginiana), and Wood Rats (Neotomu micropus

cruzi are con- sidered: the domestic cycle, which is maintained by man, domestic animals (dogs, cats) and domestic triatomine bugs; the wild cycle, which involves

The majority of cases originate in the rural and periurban areas, where the disease per- sists because of the unstable socioeconomic condi- tions of the population