Chagas disease (also known as American trypanosomiasis)
2024年4月4日 · Chagas disease is an infectious disease caused by a protozoan parasite (Trypanosoma cruzi). However, this condition is the result of a complex health problem typical of neglected tropical diseases and socially determined diseases.
Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis) - World Health …
2023年4月13日 · For a long time, Chagas disease was a strictly found in rural areas, plaguing only certain regions of the countryside, usually characterized by poverty and exclusion. To many, Chagas disease symbolises much more than an illness, almost always associated with poverty in rural areas and impoverished house infested with triatomine bugs.
Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis) - World Health …
2012年4月3日 · Chagas disease, also known as American trypanosomiasis, is a potentially life-threatening illness caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi. An estimated 6 to 7 million people worldwide are infected with T. cruzi .
Chagas disease - World Health Organization (WHO)
2024年4月4日 · Chagas disease is named after Carlos Ribeiro Justiniano Chagas, a Brazilian physician and researcher who discovered the disease in 1909. In May 2019, following up on decision of the 72 World Health Assembly, the World Chagas Disease Day was established to be celebrated on 14 April (the date of the year 1909 when Carlos Chagas diagnosed the ...
Chagas disease - PAHO/WHO | Pan American Health Organization
2024年9月30日 · Chagas disease is the most prevalent communicable tropical disease in Latin America. The most important vectors are the Triatoma infestans in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay and Peru; the R. prolixus in Colombia, Venezuela and Central America; the T. dimidiata in Ecuador and Central America; and the Rhodnius pallescens in Panama.
Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of Chagas disease
2018年11月21日 · This document focuses on making recommendations for the diagnosis and treatment of Chagas disease, an infection caused by Trypanosoma cruzi, the protozoan agent of a systemic parasitic disease. These clinical practice guidelines were prepared following the WHO handbook for guideline development (5).
恰加斯病（南美锥虫病） - World Health Organization (WHO)
2024年4月4日 · According to official statistics from the Secretary of Health, through the National Chagas Program, 300 thousand people including children and adults are infected with "Chagas disease" transmitted by this species, registering the highest infection rate in western rural areas.
World Chagas Disease Day - World Health Organization (WHO)
2024年4月11日 · Chagas disease: the story of Ruth. Chagas is both a silent and silenced disease. The first feature answers to the specific characteristics of the disease, but the second is the consequence of the lack of adequate investment by the Government to effectively communicate and teach about Chagas to affected - mostly poor - communities.
World Chagas Disease Day - World Health Organization (WHO)
2021年4月13日 · Chagas disease is prevalent among poor populations of continental Latin America but is increasingly being detected in other countries and continents. It is often termed as a “silent and silenced disease” as the infected majority have no symptoms or extremely mild symptom. Chagas disease patients comprise risk groups that can present severe ...
Enfermedad de Chagas (tripanosomiasis americana)
La enfermedad de Chagas es curable si el tratamiento antiparasitario se inicia precozmente, en la fase aguda. En infecciones crónicas, el tratamiento y el seguimiento pueden prevenir o frenar la progresión de la enfermedad y evitar la transmisión, por ejemplo, durante el embarazo y el parto.