A long-term follow-up study among patients with chronic Chagas disease showed that the time to positive molecular detection of the disease was significantly shorter with posaconazole than with ...

Each year, the world loses about 12,000 lives due to Chagas disease. This alarming statistic prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) to designate April 14 as World Chagas Disease Day, a global ...

The study elucidates the mechanism by which the Chagas Disease parasite, Trypanosoma cruzi, invades human cells, focusing on the interaction between the parasite's protein gp82 and the human ...

What are kissing bugs? Kissing bugs, or Triatomine bugs, are named so as they tend to bite people on the face and near the ...

“Chagas disease is particularly distressing ... and can have significant side effects, including skin rashes, nausea, diarrhoea, weight loss and neurological issues. Doctors do not like ...

The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study 2021 reported 44.84 million disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) because of skin and subcutaneous diseases. Researchers utilized data from the GBD Study ...

In a groundbreaking study conducted by researchers at Auburn University in collaboration with Brazil's Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ), new mechanisms by which the Chagas disease parasite, ...

Charles Darwin described his experience of being a victim of the kissing bug with amazing details, including that it was painless and curious to watch the body of the arthropod changing from as flat ...

Introduction: Most studies evaluated the efficacy of treatment for chagas disease with the reduction of parasite detection as a primary outcome. However, little is known about the mortality rate ...