Chagas Disease – Pipeline Review: Key Developments and Innovations to Increase Adoption of Drugs
Chagas disease, also known as American trypanosomiasis, is caused by infection with the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi. The organism T cruzi and infection in humans were first described in 1909 by the Brazilian physician Carlos R. J. Chagas. T cruzi is found mostly in blood-sucking triatomine insects and small mammals in a sylvatic cycle that is enzootic from the southern and southwestern United States to central Argentina and Chile. Various factors influencing prevalence of Chagas Disease have been included in...
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