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Chagas Disease Clinical Trial

New Chagas disease clinical trial research from J.R Coura and co-researchers described

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, March 16th, 2010

Scientists discuss in 'Present situation and new strategies for Chagas disease chemotherapy: a proposal' new findings in Chagas disease. "Treatments for Chagas disease have been administered since the first attempts by Mayer & Rocha Lima (1912, 1914) and up to the drugs currently in use (nifurtimox and benznidazole), along with potential drugs such as allopurinol and first, second and third-generation antifungal agents (imidazoles and triazoles), in separate form. Several diseases such as tuberculosis, leprosy and AIDS only came under control after they were treated with associations of drugs with different mechanisms of action," scientists in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil report.

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