Information from the World Health Organization.
Images of the causative parasite and brief information about the disease.
Detailed information from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.
A study of the disease by Dr. Joseph Bastien.
Debasish Chattopadhyay's Structural Biology Laboratory is studying the DHFR and PTR enzymes of Trypanosoma cruzi for structure-based design of specific inhibitors of these enzymes. For this purpose, they have determined the crystal structure of substrate and inhibitor complexes of T. cruzi PTR at high resolution.
Full text article by Daniel E Lyman, Fernando A. Monteiro, Ananias A. Escalante, Celia Cordon-Rosales, Dawn M. Wesson, Jean-Pierre Dujardin, and Charles B. Beard.
Directory of news, articles, and factsheets.
Factsheet with cause, symptoms, risk factors, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.
Brief information about Chagas' and other diseases caused by parasites of the Trypanosomatidae family (leishmaniasis and African sleeping sickness).
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