Chagas Disease: From Discovery to a Worldwide Health Problem

• Asıl Yazarlar: Kárita Cláudia Freitas Lidani (Yazar), Fabiana Antunes Andrade (Yazar), Lorena Bavia (Yazar), Flávia Silva Damasceno (Yazar), Marcia Holsbach Beltrame (Yazar), Iara J. Messias-Reason (Yazar), Thaisa Lucas Sandri (Yazar)
• Materyal Türü: Kitap
• Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Frontiers Media S.A., 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z.
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Carlos Chagas discovered American trypanosomiasis, also named Chagas disease (CD) in his honor, just over a century ago. He described the clinical aspects of the disease, characterized by its etiological agent (Trypanosoma cruzi) and identified its insect vector. Initially, CD occurred only in Latin...