Today, 14 April marks World Chagas Disease Day. Chagas disease progresses through two main stages: acute and chronic. Acute stage: The acute stage typically occurs shortly after infection and may ...

What is Chagas disease? Chagas disease has an acute phase and a chronic phase, said Bast. The acute phase occurs immediately after infection and can last 8–10 weeks. During this phase ...

Medications used to treat it have strong side effects and need to be administered during the acute phase ... are seven lineages and the chronic symptoms of Chagas disease vary between them.

Combining rapid diagnostic tests with conventional serology proves to be a useful strategy for diagnosing Chagas disease in an indigenous community in the Paraguayan Chaco Although they have good ...