World Chagas Disease Day: Article Collection
Chagas disease, also known as American trypanosomiasis, is a potentially life-threatening illness caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi.
This Thursday 14th April is World Chagas Disease Day. This international day is a chance to spread awareness about this 'silent and silenced disease', which kills 10,000 people worldwide per year.
The theme for 2022 is finding and reporting every case to defeat chagas disease. Trypanosoma cruzi infection is curable if treatment is initiated soon after infection, but in many countries, low detection rates and limited access to treatment makes chagas disease a deadly threat.
To mark this year’s World Chagas Disease Day, we have put together a collection of papers from Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene and International Health. These articles will be freely available until 14 May 2022.
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
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, 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, 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, trab089
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
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
Blood culture positivity rate for Trypanosoma cruzi in patients with chronic Chagas disease differs among different clinical forms
Marco Antonio Prates Nielebock, Luciana de Freitas Campos Miranda, Pedro Emmanuel Alvarenga Americano do Brasil, Thayanne Oliveira de Jesus S. Pereira, Aline Fagundes da Silva, Alejandro Marcel Hasslocher-Moreno, Luiz Henrique Conde Sangenis, Roberto Magalhães Saraiva
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, traa121
Assessing the entomo-epidemiological situation of Chagas disease in rural communities in the state of Piauí, Brazilian semi-arid region
Jessica P dos Santos, Renato da Silva, Jr, Alice Helena Ricardo-Silva, Thaiane Verly, Constança Britto, Brenda B C Evangelista, Liliene Rocha-Silva, Darlane F M da Silva, Rony A Oliveira, Edvan Pereira, Kerla J L Monteiro, Filipe A Carvalho-Costa, Jacenir dos S Mallet
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, traa070
International Health
Vectors: recognising the challenge and reducing neglect
Janet Hemingway
International Health, ihz050
A call for papers
The RSTMH journals, Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene and International Health, are looking for submissions of original research papers and reviews in all areas of Chagas research.
To submit a paper and to view our author instructions visit:
www.editorialmanager.com/trstmh (Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene) or www.editorialmanager.com/inthealth (International Health)