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Information: Disease caused by the protozoan parasite (Trypanosoma cruzi) transmitted by bites of blood-feeding Assassin bugs (Hemiptera: Reduviidae, subfamily Triatominae). Occurs in northern South America, Central America, and Mexico.
Chagas Disease Sites:
Chagas Disease Chagas Disease: Information from the World Health Organization. (Chagas Disease) http://www.who.int/tdr/diseases/chagas/
MedlinePlus: Chagas Disease MedlinePlus: Chagas Disease: Directory of news, articles, and factsheets. (Chagas Disease) http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/chagasdisease.html
Mitochondrial DNA Sequence Variation among Triatomine Vectors of Chagas' Disease Mitochondrial DNA Sequence Variation among Triatomine Vectors of Chagas' Disease: Full text article by Daniel E Lyman, Fernando A. Monteiro, Ananias A. Escalante, Celia Cordon-Rosales, Dawn M. Wesson, Jean-Pierre Dujardin, and Charles B. Beard. (Chagas Disease) http://www.tulane.edu/~wesson/Pubs/030199/
Trypanosoma cruzi (Chagas' Disease) Trypanosoma cruzi (Chagas' Disease): Images of the causative parasite and brief information about the disease. (Chagas Disease) http://www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~parasite/chagas.html
Division of Parasitic Diseases - Chagas Disease Division of Parasitic Diseases - Chagas Disease: Detailed information from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. (Chagas Disease) http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/chagasdisease/
Chagas' Disease (American Trypanosomiasis) Chagas' Disease (American Trypanosomiasis): Brief information about Chagas' and other diseases caused by parasites of the Trypanosomatidae family (leishmaniasis and African sleeping sickness). (Chagas Disease) http://www.sbri.org/diseases/chagas.asp
Chagas Disease Research Program Chagas Disease Research Program: Debasish Chattopadhyay's Structural Biology Laboratory is studying the DHFR and PTR enzymes of Trypanosoma cruzi for structure-based design of specific inhibitors of these enzymes. For this purpose, they have determined the crystal structure of substrat (Chagas Disease) http://info.dom.uab.edu/geomed/debasish/chagas.html
Additional
Information: Disease caused by the protozoan parasite (Trypanosoma cruzi) transmitted by bites of blood-feeding Assassin bugs (Hemiptera: Reduviidae, subfamily Triatominae). Occurs in northern South America, Central America, and Mexico.
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