Chagas Disease Therapy
Study findings from University of California, Department of Pathology provide new insights into Chagas disease therapy
Published in AIDS Weekly, January 28th, 2008
Fresh data on Chagas disease are presented in the report 'A cysteine protease inhibitor cures Chagas' disease in an immunodeficient-mouse model of infection.' "Chagas' disease, caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, remains the leading cause of cardiopathy in Latin America with about 12 million people infected. Classic clinical manifestations derive from infection of muscle cells leading to progressive cardiomyopathy, while some patients develop megacolon or megaesophagus," investigators in the United States report.
"A very aggressive clinical course including fulminant meningoencephalitis has been reported in patients who contract Chagas' disease in the...
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Source: AIDS Weekly (2008-01-28)
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