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Infections > Vector Borne Diseases > Chagas Disease
... > Infections > Parasitic Diseases > Protozoan Infections > Euglenozoa Infections > Trypanosomiasis > Chagas Disease

Preferred term

Chagas Disease  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • American Trypanosomiasis
  • Chagas' Disease
  • Infections, Trypanosoma cruzi
  • Infection, Trypanosoma cruzi
  • South American Trypanosomiasis
  • Trypanosoma cruzi Infection
  • Trypanosoma cruzi Infections
  • Trypanosomiasis, American
  • Trypanosomiasis, South American

Note

  • coordinate with NEGLECTED DISEASES if pertinent; CHAGAS CARDIOMYOPATHY is also available.

Scope note

  • Infection with the protozoan parasite TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI, a form of TRYPANOSOMIASIS endemic in Central and South America. It is named after the Brazilian physician Carlos Chagas, who discovered the parasite. Infection by the parasite (positive serologic result only) is distinguished from the clinical manifestations that develop years later, such as destruction of PARASYMPATHETIC GANGLIA; CHAGAS CARDIOMYOPATHY; and dysfunction of the ESOPHAGUS or COLON.

History note

  • 92; was TRYPANOSOMIASIS, SOUTH AMERICAN 1966-91; CHAGAS DISEASE was see TRYPANOSOMIASIS, SOUTH AMERICAN 1981-91

In other languages

  • Chagasin tauti

    Finnish

  • amerikansk trypanosomiasis
  • amerikkalainen trypanosomiaasi
  • Chagas
  • Chagas sjukdom
  • Chagas'n tauti
  • infektion orsakad av trypanosoma cruz
  • morbus Chagas
  • Trypanosoma cruzin aiheuttama infektio
  • Chagas sjukdom

    Swedish

  • Trypanosomiasis, sydamerikansk

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D014355

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