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    Chagas disease, also known as American trypanosomiasis, is a tropical parasitic disease caused by Trypanosoma cruzi. It is spread mostly by insects in...
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    where Chagas disease occurs (from the southern United States to northern Argentina), all triatomine species are potential vectors of the Chagas disease parasite...
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    Latin America. Chagas disease is also known as American trypanosomiasis. There are approximately 15 million people infected with Chagas disease. Morbidity...
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    associated with Chagas disease. Chagas disease is caused by Trypanosoma cruzi, a flagellate protozoan transmitted by the assassin bug. Chagas disease can also...
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    Carlos Justiniano Ribeiro Chagas, or Carlos Chagas (Portuguese: [ˈkaʁluz ʒustʃĩniˈɐ̃nu ʁiˈbejɾu ˈʃaɡɐs]; July 9, 1879 – November 8, 1934), was a Brazilian...
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    inhabits the blood and causes Chagas disease. An estimated six to eight million people are currently infected with Chagas disease, primarily in South America...
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    Clinic - Mayo Clinic". Mayo Clinic. "CDC - Chagas Disease - General Information". 13 April 2022. "Chagas disease". "Thripidae - an overview | ScienceDirect...
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  • Chagas (Portuguese: ['ʃagɐʃ] or ['ʃagɐs]) may refer to: Chagas disease 9483 Chagas, a main-belt asteroid a Portuguese-language family name, translating...
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    Arguments for the Chagas hypothesis were mainly his gastric symptoms and some of his nervous signs and symptoms (caused in Chagas by an imbalance of...
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    recently much of continental Europe has been declared rabies-free. Chagas disease is caused by Trypanosoma cruzi and is mostly spread by Triatominae....
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