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={Jos{\'e} Alberto de Castro and Mar{\'i}a Montalto deMecca and Laura Cecilia Bartel}, journal={Human and Experimental Toxicology}, year={2006}, volume={25}, pages={471 - 479} }
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…
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