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- 1From: Nature. (Vol. 465, Issue 7301) Peer-ReviewedThe available data that describe Chagas disease's spread and impact are poor: they conceal assumptions, extrapolations and, in a few cases, alleged manipulations by government officials eager to minimize the apparent...
- 2From: Nature. (Vol. 465, Issue 7301) Peer-ReviewedChagas disease is arguably the archetypal neglected disease. Millions of people--the vast majority in Latin America--are infected, yet it is seldom discussed. It has struggled to achieve even a fraction of the notoriety...
- 3From: Nature. (Vol. 465, Issue 7301) Peer-ReviewedYou would not know it if you drove to his small farm, but Ramon Raul Alegre is the owner of a unique mud hut. It looks like all the other adobe outhouses dotted near the dusty, dirt tracks in Pampa del Indio, which is a...
- 4From: Nature. (Vol. 465, Issue 7301) Peer-ReviewedChagas disease is a disease of Latin America. In spite of extensive control efforts it is so prevalent that in some areas, such as within the Gran Chaco (see Chagas disease in the Chaco, on page S18), one person in 16...
- 5From: Nature. (Vol. 465, Issue 7301) Peer-ReviewedWhat is Chagas disease? Chagas disease is a condition caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, which enters the body through broken skin and mucous membranes, and causes acute but often mild symptoms such as fever,...
- 6From: Nature. (Vol. 465, Issue 7301) Peer-ReviewedHuman American trypanosomiasis (Chagas disease), along with its causal agent Trypanosoma (Schizotrypanum) cruzi, which was discovered by Carlos Chagas (1) in Brazil in 1909, has existed in the Americas as an enzootic...
- 7From: Nature. (Vol. 465, Issue 7301) Peer-ReviewedIn April 2007, a 44-year-old woman came to a hospital in Barcelona, Spain, suffering from systemic lupus erythematosus--in which the immune system attacks the body's own tissues, including the kidneys (1). The treatment...
- 8From: Nature. (Vol. 465, Issue 7301) Peer-ReviewedIt was 7 years in the making. Bjorn Andersson at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, helped pioneer the Trypanosoma cruzi genome project from the first pilot sequencing project in 1998 to producing the first...
- 9From: Nature. (Vol. 465, Issue 7301) Peer-ReviewedA microphone is passed around the audience at screen three in Buenos Aires's Gaumont cinema in Argentina. "I am a medical student and I know nothing about this," says one young woman. "I live in Capital Federal--I was...