Note: The acute form of Chagas disease lasts for several weeks to months and is marked by mild symptoms (such as fever, fatigue, or swelling at the infection site) or rarely by serious symptoms (such as myocarditis or meningoencephalitis) but is often asymptomatic. The acute form may sometimes progress years later to a chronic form characterized especially by cardiac and gastrointestinal complications (such as cardiomyopathy, irregular heart rhythm, and enlargement of the colon or esophagus).
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Hannah Richter, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 July 2024
Hotez has led or is currently leading development of vaccines for hookworm, schistosomiasis, Chagas disease, and SARS.
—Peter Hotez, TIME, 2 May 2024
The new policy, passed by board members of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, will require the groups that recover organs in the U.S. to test the blood of donors born in countries where Chagas disease is prevalent, including Mexico and 20 nations in South and Central America.
—Caroline Chen, ProPublica, 27 June 2023
Now, a new study of Indigenous peoples from the Amazon rainforest reveals one more such adaptation: a genetic resistance to the endemic parasite responsible for deadly Chagas disease.
—Byrodrigo Pérez Ortega, science.org, 8 Mar. 2023
Neglected diseases of poverty are a group of chronic and disabling illnesses, such as Chagas disease, hookworm, and Dengue fever, that primarily impact extremely impoverished people.
—Joshua Cohen, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2023
Some kissing bugs can carry the parasite that causes Chagas disease, which, left untreated, can lead to serious heart or digestive problems.
—Women's Health, 1 May 2023
This is the first experimental evidence that this gene is involved with Chagas disease, Hünemeier says.
—Byrodrigo Pérez Ortega, science.org, 8 Mar. 2023
The types of infections often seen in Texas and Gulf Coast areas include extrapulmonary and latent tuberculosis, strongyloidiasis, Chagas disease, and schistosomiasis.
—Joshua Cohen, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2023
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“Chagas disease.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Chagas%20disease. Accessed 26 Nov. 2024.
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Chagas disease
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Note: The acute form of Chagas disease lasts for several weeks to months and is marked by mild symptoms (such as fever, fatigue, or swelling at the infection site) or rarely by serious symptoms (such as myocarditis or meningoencephalitis) but is often asymptomatic. The acute form may sometimes progress years later to a chronic form characterized especially by cardiac and gastrointestinal complications (such as cardiomyopathy, irregular heart rhythm, and enlargement of the colon or esophagus).
called also American trypanosomiasis
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