Chagas Disease Causes, Symptoms and its Treatment & Prevention.
Chagas' Disease (American Trypanosomiasis) -
Brief information about Chagas' and other diseases caused by parasites of
the Trypanosomatidae family (leishmaniasis and African sleeping sickness).
http://www.sbri.org/diseases/chagas.asp
Chagas Disease Facts -
Factsheet with cause, symptoms, risk factors, diagnosis, treatment, and
prevention.
http://www.astdhpphe.org/infect/Chagas.html
Chagas Disease Research Program -
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.
http://info.dom.uab.edu/geomed/debasish/chagas.html
Division of
Parasitic Diseases - Chagas Disease -
Detailed information from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/chagasdisease/
The Kiss of Death: Chagas' Disease in
the Americas -
A study of the disease by Dr. Joseph Bastien.
http://www.uta.edu/chagas/
MedlinePlus:
Chagas Disease -
Directory of news, articles, and factsheets.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/chagasdisease.html
Mitochondrial DNA
Sequence Variation among Triatomine Vectors of Chagas' Disease -
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.
http://www.tulane.edu/~wesson/Pubs/030199/
Trypanosoma
cruzi (Chagas' Disease) -
Images of the causative parasite and brief information about the disease.
http://www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~parasite/chagas.html
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