World Chagas Disease Day 2024: Article collection
Sunday 14 April is the fourth World Chagas Disease Day. Chagas disease, also known as "silent or silenced disease", 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. 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 the day is ‘Tackling Chagas disease: Detect early and care for life’. To celebrate, we have compiled an article collection from our journal Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (TRSTMH).
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene
Exploring the latency period in Chagas disease: duration and determinants in a cohort from Colombia. Mario Javier Olivera, Lyda Muñoz. Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, trae004, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trae004
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, Volume 117, Issue 7, July 2023, Pages 522–527, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trad009
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 Bestetti. Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 117, Issue 4, April 2023, Pages 279–284, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trac106
Socio-epidemiological factors and comorbidities associated with Chagas disease manifestations in two urban reference health care centres in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Luciana F Portela, Maíra B Mesquita, Juliana M Giraldes, Margareth C Varela, Pedro Emmanuel A A Brasil, Andréa R Costa, Mauro F F Mediano, Luiz Henrique C Sangenis, Roberto C Pedrosa, Alejandro Marcel Hasslocher-Moreno, Roberto M Saraiva. Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 117, Issue 2, February 2023, Pages 102–110, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trac068
Deaths related to Chagas disease and HIV/AIDS coinfection in Brazil: a nationwide population-based analysis. Francisco Rogerlândio Martins-Melo, Marcia C Castro, Guilherme Loureiro Werneck, Jorg Heukelbach. Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 116, Issue 6, June 2022, Pages 579–588, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trab183
Community-based entomological surveillance in three Chagas disease-endemic regions in sub-Andean Bolivia. Mirko Rojas-Cortez, Maria-Jesus Pinazo, Joaquim Gascon, Enzo Gamarra, Rosse Mary Grageda, Rene Fernandez, Eduardo Rueda, Jimy Pinto, Helmut Magne Anzoleaga, Yurly Escobar Caballero, Gloria Sandy Urioste, Jareth Sanchez, Ruth Saravia, Mario Castellon, Wilson Garcia, Lourdes Ortiz Daza, Isabel Gonzales Mur, Daniel Lozano, Filipe Anibal Carvalho-Costa, Fernando Araújo Monteiro, Faustino Torrico. Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 115, Issue 11, November 2021, Pages 1251–1259, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trab150
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 Bern. Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 116, Issue 1, January 2022, Pages 80–84, https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trab089