[Comment] The long road towards a safe and effective treatment of chronic Chagas disease

Chagas disease, a chronic systemic parasitosis by the kinetoplastid protozoon Trypanosoma cruzi, is the leading cause of cardiac morbidity and mortality in poor rural and suburban areas of Latin America and the source of the largest parasitic disease burden in the American continent. This burden is now spreading worldwide owing to international migration.1,2 A recent change in the scientific understanding of the pathogenesis of chronic Chagas disease has led to consensus that all T cruzi-seropositive patients should receive aetiological treatment with anti-T cruzi drugs.
Source: The Lancet Infectious Diseases - Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Tags: Comment Source Type: research