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Development of Diagnostics for Chagas Disease: Where Should We Put Our Limited Resources?

Author(s) -

Albert Picado,

Andrea Angheben,

Andrea Marchiol,

Belkisyolé Alarcón de Noya,

Laurence Flévaud,

MaríaJesús Pinazo,

Montserrat Gállego,

Sheba Meymandi,

Silvia Moriana

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

plos neglected tropical diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.99

H-Index - 135

eISSN - 1935-2735

pISSN - 1935-2727

DOI - 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005148

Subject(s) - chagas disease , declaration , transmission (telecommunications) , latin americans , neglected tropical diseases , trypanosoma cruzi , disease , medicine , global health , intensive care medicine , trypanosomiasis , immunology , virology , public health , political science , computer science , pathology , telecommunications , parasite hosting , world wide web , law

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), one of the milestones set by the London Declaration for Chagas disease the interruption of Chagas disease transmission through blood transfusion in Latin America was achieved in most countries (20 out of 21) in 2015. This is a crucial step towards reaching the goal of controlling Chagas disease by 2020. However, many challenges remain: less than 1% of the 6 to 7 million people infected with Trypanosoma cruzi are treated, and new infections still occ

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