Chagas disease is an endemic zoonosis that can cause chronic medical complications in a third of those
infected, usually decades after infection. It mainly affects the peripheral nervous system of heart, esophagus
and colon. At digestive level, motor dysfunction leads to the development of megaesophagus ...
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La enfermedad de Chagas, también llamada tripanosomiasis
americana, es una enfermedad potencialmente
mortal causada por el parásito protozoo Trypanosoma
cruzi. Esta enfermedad es un problema de
salud pública, ya que se calcula que en el mundo hay
entre 6 y 7 millones de personas infectad...
Davila-Barboza, Jesus;
Segura, Olga Karina Villanueva;
Lopez-Monroy, Beatriz;
Ponce-García, Gustavo;
Bobadilla-Utrera, Cristina;
Montes-Rincon, Laura Mayela;
Molina-Garza, Zinnia J;
Arredondo-Jimenez, Juan I;
Rodriguez-Sanchez, Iram Pablo;
Manrique-Saide, Pablo C;
Flores, Adriana E.
Although having five different ways of transmission the vector-borne is theprincipal way of transmission of Chagas disease, which involves insects of the subfamilyTriatominae (Hemiptera: Reduviidae). Nineteen of the 31 species that occur in Mexico areassociated with humans, and all are capable of transmi...
Insecticide spraying of housing units is an important control measure for vector-borne infections such as Chagas disease. As vectors may invade both from other infested houses and sylvatic areas and as the effectiveness of insecticide wears off over time, the dynamics of (re)infestations can be approxima...
El control químico del vector representa la herramienta de mayor importancia para el manejo de la enfermedad de Chagas en zonas endémicas. El rociado con deltametrina se viene realizando desde hace 30 años. Aún así, la efectividad de este compuesto ha disminuido en la última década a causa de la r...
Triatoma infestans Klug (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) is the main vector of Chagas disease in Latin America. This insect has been controlled with pyrethroids since the 1980s, although the emergence of resistance to deltamethrin has decreased control success in some areas of the Gran Chaco ecoregion. The respon...
Intense use of insecticides has resulted in the selection of extreme levels of resistance in insect populations. Therefore understanding the molecular basis of insecticide resistance mechanisms becomes critical. Penetration resistance refers to modifications in the cuticle that will eventually slow down ...
Background: Rapid reinfestation of insecticide-treated dwellings hamper the sustained elimination of Triatoma infestans, the main vector of Chagas disease in the Gran Chaco region. We conducted a seven-year longitudinal study including community-wide spraying with pyrethroid insecticides combined with pe...
Introdução: A doença de Chagas (DC) é uma parasitose causada pelo agente infeccioso Trypanosoma cruzi. No Brasil, o tratamento específico da DC
é realizado com o Benzonidazol (Bz), que devido à sua toxicidade pode levar ao aparecimento de várias reações adversas aos pacientes que fazem uso
dest...