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Chagas Disease
Causative agent: Trypanosoma cruzi
Vector: Triatomine bug (kissing bug)
Mode of Transmission:
• Contaminated food
• Blood transfusion
• Organ transplant
• Kissing bug vector (dominant)
• Mother to child
Symptoms:
• Chagoma- happens at the bite site
• Romaña’s sign- happen around the eyes that can cause eyelid swelling.
Diagnosis:
• Polymerase Chain Reaction
• Immunoassays (differentiate varied Trypanosoma cruzi stains)
Treatment: Anti-parasitic drugs, Nifurtimox and Benznidazole
Prevention & Control: Vector control, Transfusion control and Mother-child transmission
control

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Brock Microbiology of Microorganisms 14th Edition
Chapter 32- Eukaryotic Pathogens: Fungal and Parasitic Diseases
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