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An Approach to The Acute Phase of Chagas' Disease: The Continuing Challenge it Presents in the 21(st) Century

Dário C. Sobral Filho

Chagas disease, in addition to being widespread on the American continent with around six million persons infected, is currently present in various regions of the world as a result of the migration of individuals with the disease.,

The statistics show that the incidence of acute cases has fallen from 700,000 new cases in 1990 to the current estimate of 29,000 – 30,000 per year by vector-borne transmission, plus 8,000 other cases by other modes such as transfusion and the digestive tract, owing to ingestion of food contaminated by Trypanosoma cruzi, as described by Ortiz et al. in their publication in this journal, in which they report 63 cases of cases of the acute form of Chagas disease in the state of Amazonas over a period of eight years, with oral transmission in 75% of the patients.

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  • Amazonian Ecosystem
  • Chagas cardiomyopathy/epidemiology
  • Chagas Disease/epidemiology
  • Trypanosoma cruzi
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01/03/2019 DOI: 10.5935/abc.20190035 Views 1

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Sobral Filho DC. An Approach to The Acute Phase of Chagas’ Disease: The Continuing Challenge it Presents in the 21(st) Century. Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia 2019;112(3):247-8.

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Sobral Filho, Dário C.. An Approach to The Acute Phase of Chagas’ Disease: The Continuing Challenge it Presents in the 21(st) Century. Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia, v. 112, n. 3, p. 247-248, Feb. 2019.

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Sobral Filho, D. C. (2019). An Approach to The Acute Phase of Chagas’ Disease: The Continuing Challenge it Presents in the 21(st) Century. Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia, 112(3), 247-248.

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Sobral Filho, Dário C.. An Approach to The Acute Phase of Chagas’ Disease: The Continuing Challenge it Presents in the 21(st) Century. Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia [online]. 2019, vol. 112, n. 3, [cited 2026-10-14], pp. 247-248. Available from: <https://journals.cardiol.br/en/article/an-approach-to-the-acute-phase-of-chagas-disease-the-continuing-challenge-it-presents-in-the-21st-century/>. ISSN 0066-782X

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