Chagas disease can cause very serious heart problems. If untreated, infection is lifelong and can be life threatening. Treatment is most effective in the early stages of disease. If you think you have ...

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 ...

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 ...

Understanding how Chagas disease works is another goal of the Japanese ... why symptoms vary so widely and the reason for a long asymptomatic phase, as understanding all of this will aid treatment ...

Chagas is primarily diagnosed by serological techniques—the detection of antibodies to T. cruzi in the blood—during the chronic phase of the disease. To improve diagnostic access, Paraguayan ...

The conventional tests for Chagas disease, including microscopy and serological ... However, PCR requires varied temperatures at different stages of the amplification process, which limits where ...

Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis caused by Trypanosoma cruzi), transmitted by triatomines (kissing bugs), affects by some estimates as many as 9-10 million people around the world. In total, ...

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 ...