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SUBMITTER: Teixeira AR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2653922 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Postgraduate medical journal 20061201 974
Chagas disease is the clinical condition triggered by infection with the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi. The infection is transmitted by triatomine insects while blood feeding on a human host. Field studies predict that one third of an estimated 18 million T cruzi-infected humans in Latin America will die of Chagas disease. Acute infections are usually asymptomatic, but the ensuing chronic T cruzi infections have been associated with high ratios of morbidity and mortality: Chagas heart disease lead ...[more]