Chagas' disease
A Critical Review on Chagas Disease Chemotherapy
... acute Chagas disease with this nitro- furan, obtaining “good clinical results” with few collateral effects but the xenodiagnosis became positive in five cases after treatment Coura et ...
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Attitudes towards Chagas’ disease in an endemic Brazilian community
... Abstract Chagas’ disease remains a major public health concern throughout much of Latin ...to Chagas’ disease in heavily infected ...to Chagas’ disease in a population ...
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CD17.R31: Chagas' disease
... of Chagas' disease in the Americas, based on available information and such other information as may be obtained from particular studies that are undertaken subject to the availability of budgetary ...
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Behavioural biology of Chagas disease vectors
... of Chagas disease vectors and to propose new research avenues to encourage both young and experienced colleagues to explore this aspect of triatomine ...
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Ecoepidemiology, short history and control of Chagas disease in the endemic countries and the new challenge for non-endemic countries
... Chagas disease is maintained in nature through the interchange of three cycles: the wild, peridomestic and do- mestic ...the disease by Carlos Chagas in ...of Chagas disease, due ...
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Review Article Electrocardiogram in Chagas disease
... Data for the present review were identified through a search of the PubMed and Lilacs databases using the following Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) terms: Chagas Cardiomyopathy OR Chagas Disease AND ...
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Chagas disease in the Amazon Region
... that Chagas disease becomes established as a major endemic threat in Amazonia (the world´s largest tropical biome, today inhabited by over 30 million people) relates to a complex set of interacting bio- ...
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Chagas disease in Mexico: an analysis of geographical distribution during the past 76 years - A Review
... in Chagas dis- ease research apparently developed, since the number and kind of publications from national and international authors increased ...on Chagas disease were established, while the extant ...
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Congenital Chagas disease: an update
... Role of parasite - The capacity of parasites to invade placental cells (see below), as well as their virulence and amount in pregnant women (particularly in retroplacen- tal blood), is doubtless involved in their ...
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Paleoparasitology of Chagas disease - A Review
... Guhl et al. (1997, 1999) began molecular studies in mummies from the Atacama Desert in Northern Chile. They were able to isolate T. cruzi DNA from mummi- fied tissues dating to 4,000 years BP. Less than a month apart, ...
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Assessing the risk zones of Chagas’ disease in Chile, in a world marked by global climatic change
... of Chagas’ disease (17.44%), and areas where Chagas’ disease cases are probable but the areas are not suitable for ...for Chagas’ disease, are zones with probable underreport- ...
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Immunosuppression and Chagas disease: a management challenge.
... chronic Chagas disease and neoplastic disease requiring intensive or long-term pharmacological ...chronic disease is variable and limited, which renders risk/benefit analyses ...for ...
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INTERRUPTING CHAGAS DISEASE TRANSMISSION IN VENEZUELA
... It is quite possible that R. prolixus can be significantly reduced in the unstable area, as well as in the higher risk endemic area, in the coming years. While integrated control has long been advocated, rapid ...
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KEYWORDS benznidazole, Chagas disease, Trypanosoma cruzi
... T. cruzi infection, BNZ biodistribution in the spleen may have important clinical impli- cations in the acute phase of Chagas disease, which is often responsible for spleno- megaly. Olivieri et al. showed ...
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Chagas Disease: Still Many Unsolved Issues
... because Chagas disease is a highly heterogeneous process inluenced by host genetics, we cannot discard that the immune response in the heart of CCC patients could include, besides leukocyte reactivity ...
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Chagas disease in Andean countries
... Colombia’s new Ministry of Social Protection (a merger between the former Ministries of Health and Work and Social Security) has clearly harmed general vector transmitted diseases (VTD) control action by its lack of ...
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Vector control intervention towards interruption of transmission of Chagas disease by Rhodnius prolixus, main vector in Guatemala
... vector-borne disease control programme [Enfermedades Transmitidas por Vectores (ETV)] of each department investigated houses with the risk ...about Chagas disease and the physical appearance of the ...
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Study on Chagas disease occurrence in the municipality of Monte Negro, State of Rondônia, Brazilian Amazon
... of Chagas disease in the Amazon region is still being understood in a supericial and fragmental ...the disease. Today, some works have considered the disease as emerging around Brazilian ...
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Pupillometry in Chagas disease
... with Chagas disease was assessed by comparing their RCAp values with those of the control ...the Chagas group was defined as an RCAp exceeding the mean RCAp in the control group by more than two ...
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Trypanosoma cruzi: Genetic Structure of Populations and Relevance of Genetic Variability to the Pathogenesis of Chagas Disease
... of Chagas disease, proposed as early as 1911 (Vianna 1911) was revitalized when it was shown that para- sites presenting different genetic profiles could be found in distinct tissues (esophagus and heart) ...
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