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Chagas Disease

Known as: American Trypanosomiasis, chaga diseases, disease chagas 
Infection with the protozoan parasite TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI, a form of TRYPANOSOMIASIS endemic in Central and South America. It is named after the… 
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African TrypanosomiasisTrypanosomiasis
In BloodMicrobiologicalParasitic DiseasesProtozoan Infections

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Review
2015
Review
2015
Recent Clinical Trials for the Etiological Treatment of Chronic Chagas Disease: Advances, Challenges and Perspectives
Chagas disease, a chronic systemic parasitosis caused by the Kinetoplastid protozoon Trypanosoma cruzi, is the first cause of… 
Review
2012
Review
2012
Mechanisms of Trypanosoma cruzi persistence in Chagas disease
Trypanosoma cruzi infection leads to development of chronic Chagas disease. In this article, we provide an update on the current… 
Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
Chagas disease 101
It is 101 years since Carlos Chagas discovered the parasite responsible for the disease that now bears his name. What progress… 
Review
2008
Review
2008
The History of Left Septal Fascicular Block: Chronological Considerations of a Reality Yet to be Universally Accepted
There are several papers in literature that prove in a conclusive and incontestable way, that the left branch of the His bundle… 
Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Trypanocide treatment among adults with chronic Chagas disease living in Santa Fe city (Argentina), over a mean follow-up of 21 years: parasitological, serological and clinical evolution.
The efficacy of treatment with nifurtimox and/or benznidazole among adults with chronic Chagas disease with no previous… 
Review
2006
Review
2006
Chagas disease in Mexico: an analysis of geographical distribution during the past 76 years--a review.
Literature from 1928 through 2004 was compiled from different document sources published in Mexico or elsewhere. From these 907… 
Review
2005
Review
2005
Chemotherapy of trypanosomiases and leishmaniasis.
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
A 9,000-year record of Chagas' disease
Tissue specimens from 283 principally spontaneously (naturally) desiccated human mummies from coastal and low valley sites in… 
Review
2003
Review
2003
Pathophysiology of the heart in Chagas' disease: current status and new developments.
Review
1980
Review
1980
Immunity to Trypanosoma cruzi.
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