• DOI:10.1191/0960327106het653oa
Corpus ID: 8980212

Toxic Side Effects of Drugs Used to Treat Chagas’ Disease (American Trypanosomiasis)

@article{Castro2006ToxicSE,
  title={Toxic Side Effects of Drugs Used to Treat Chagas’ Disease (American Trypanosomiasis)},
  author={J. Castro and Mar{\'i}a Montalto deMecca and L. Bartel},
  journal={Human and Experimental Toxicology},
  year={2006},
  volume={25},
  pages={471 - 479}
}

J. Castro, María Montalto deMecca, L. Bartel

Published 2006

Medicine

Human and Experimental Toxicology

Chagas’ disease (American trypanosomiasis) is an endemic parasitic disease in some areas of Latin America. About 16-18 million persons are infected with the aetiological agent of the disease, Trypanosoma cruzi, and more than 100 million are living at risk of infection. There are different modes of infection: 1) via blood sucking vector insects infected with T. cruzi, accounting for 80-90% of transmission of the disease; 2) via blood transfusion or congenital transmission, accounting for0.5-8… CONTINUE READING

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