A study has found evidence that Chagas disease affected people prior to the European arrival in Brazil.
Research shows that insecticide-treated netting can play a major role in slowing the spread of the bugs that carry Chagas disease.
Both governmental strategies and community participation are key for tackling Chagas disease, say a study.
... ," says Patricia Dorn, one of the lead authors of the study. Chagas disease remains the leading cause of parasitic ... the kissing bugs, and thus interrupt transmission of Chagas disease, it will be important to correctly identify distinct ...
... have found living together the known carrier species for the Chagas disease-causing parasite Triatoma dimidiata (also known as "kissing bugs") and a cryptic species that looks ...
... Triatoma infestans, the bug that helps spread Chagas disease, according to new research conducted in Argentina ... to current control methods. Chagas disease is the most relevant parasitic disease in Latin America, being a major ...
Argentinean scientists have shown that fungi can act as an insecticide to eliminate the vector of the parasite that causes Chagas disease.
It is a hundred years since the discovery of Chagas disease — and in some ways it has been a lost century, say campaigners.
Controlling the bug that causes Chagas disease, a chronic infection of 10 million people worldwide with no available cures or vaccines ...
... associated with the rapid urbanization of Peru may link to Chagas disease transmission. The study, published December ... in Arequipa and other urban areas with an emerging presence of Chagas disease. These include intensifying vector surveillance ...
The frequent migrations of people between rural and urban areas in Peru may have introduced Chagas disease into shantytowns around Arequipa, says a study.
Three research centres will collaborate on finding a more efficient treatment against Chagas disease, which affects eight million people worldwide.
... great, they are even more at risk." Kitron has been researching Chagas disease in remote communities of northern Argentina ... special supplement of Nature, devoted to the topic of Chagas disease. "We are interested in answering scientific questions ...
Chagas disease has gone beyond Latin America and, today, is a challenge for non-endemic countries, say José R. Coura and Pedro A. Viñas.
Larissa Podust, PhD, is working on a new drug for a neglected scourge, a chronic parasitic infection called Chagas disease. The parasite is carried and spread by the kissing bug.
