World Chagas Disease Day 2023: Article collection
Chagas disease (also known as American trypanosomiasis) affects mainly poor people without access to health care or people without a political voice. The disease progresses slowly and often shows an asymptomatic clinical course. Without treatment, Chagas disease can lead to severe cardiac and digestive alterations and become fatal.
World Chagas Disease Day was celebrated for the first time in 2020. Raising awareness of the disease is essential to improve the rates of early treatment and cure, together with the interruption of its transmission. The theme for 2022 is finding and reporting every case to defeat Chagas disease.
To mark the day, we have compiled a collection of articles from our journal Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene.
The usefulness of the exercise stress test to predict outcome in patients with chronic Chagas disease: a longitudinal cohort study
Luciano Vaccari Grassi, Augusto Cardinalli Neto, Paulo Roberto Nogueira, Elissandro de Freitas Silva, Reinaldo Bulgareli Bestetti
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, trad009, doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trad009
Published: 27 March 2023
Prevalence and clinical course of patients with chronic heart failure secondary to chronic Chagas heart disease associated with obstructive coronary artery disease
Ana Paula Otaviano, Augusto Cardinalli-Neto, Marcelo A Nakazone, Paulo R Nogueira, Reinaldo B BestettiTransactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, trac106, doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trac106
Published: 09 November 2022
Socio-epidemiological factors and comorbidities associated with Chagas disease manifestations in two urban reference health care centres in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Roberto M Saraiva, et al
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, trac068, doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trac068
Published: 27 July 2022
Community-based entomological surveillance in three Chagas disease-endemic regions in sub-Andean Bolivia
Mirko Rojas-Cortez, et al
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, trab150, doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trab150
Published: 27 September 2021
Congenital Chagas disease in Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia, is dominated by Trypanosoma cruzi lineage V
Leny Sanchez, Louisa A Messenger, Tapan Bhattacharyya, Robert H Gilman, Holger Mayta, Rony Colanzi, Ricardo Bozo, Manuela Verástegui, Michael A Miles, Caryn BernTransactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, trab089, doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trab089
Published: 16 June 2021
Triatomine home invasions in active foci of Chagas disease in Abaetetuba, Pará, Brazil
Bruna Daniele Lisboa Mota, Vera da Costa Valente, Francisco Luzio de Paula Ramos, Sebastião Aldo da Silva Valente, Ana Yecê das Neves Pinto
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, trab057, doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trab057
Published: 08 April 2021
Increased epicardial adipose tissue thickness associated with increased metabolic risk and the presence of heart failure in patients with Chronic Chagas disease
Luz María Rodeles, Maximiliano Castro, María Ayelen Gaitán Zamora, Roberto Savarino, Luz María Peverengo, Estefanía Soledad Prochetto, Iván Marcipar, Pablo Arias, Miguel Hernán Vicco
Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, traa189, doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/traa189
Published: 27 January 2021
