chagas' disease in English

noun
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a disease caused by trypanosomes transmitted by bloodsucking bugs, endemic in South America and causing damage to the heart and central nervous system.
The medical aid agency specifically asked them for the overall resources devoted to malaria, tuberculosis, sleeping sickness, Chagas' disease , and leishmaniasis.

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1. African sleeping sickness, leishmaniasis and Chagas disease.

2. Chagas’ disease illustrates how blood carries disease to distant people.

3. Less well known are Chagas disease, sleeping sickness and leishmaniasis.

4. Chagas disease is a parasitic infection caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi.

5. This fictionalized account realistically depicts how Chagas’ disease can be contracted.

6. Benznidazole is an antiparasitic medication used in the treatment of Chagas disease.

7. As a result of this one encounter, the child contracts Chagas’ disease.

8. We've started collecting data for malaria, Chagas disease and giardia from patients themselves.

9. Chagas’ Disease: This is a parasitic infection that afflicts some 10 million people in South and Central America.

10. Leishmaniasis, African Sleeping Sickness and Chagas disease are just some of the infectious diseases currently affecting millions of people around the world, predominantly in developing countries.

11. Blood parasites are malaria plasmodia, microfilaria species, trypanosomes (the causative agents of African sleeping sickness and South American Chagas disease) and the causative agents of schistosomiasis of the bladder and the intestine.

12. According to the publication Tropical Diseases Bulletin, Chagas’ disease, along with African trypanosomiasis (African sleeping sickness), yaws and filariasis (hairlike worms from two to three inches [5 to 8 centimeters] long), is transmittable through blood transfusions.

13. Three surgical complications of Chagas' disease—megaesophagus, achalasia of the pylorus, and cholelithiasis—were evaluated within the framework of the experience acquired in the management of 840 cases of megaesophagus—722 in the nonadvanced stage of the disease and 118 with advanced disease (dolichomegaesophagus).

14. It then says: “Several other diseases have also been reported to be transmitted by blood transfusion, including herpes virus infections, infectious mononucleosis (Epstein-Barr virus), toxoplasmosis, trypanosomiasis [African sleeping sickness and Chagas’ disease], leishmaniasis, brucellosis [undulant fever], typhus, filariasis, measles, salmonellosis, and Colorado tick fever.”