CDC - Enfermedad de Chagas - Otros recursos

CDC - Enfermedad de Chagas - Otros recursos

Otros recursos

Los siguientes enlaces contienen más información sobre la enfermedad de Chagas.

Página web de la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) sobre la enfermedad de Chagas
Contiene información sobre la enfermedad, la animación del ciclo de vida del Trypanosoma cruziy las tendencias futuras en la investigación sobre la enfermedad de Chagas.

Tabla actualizada de las enfermedades tropicales (TDR Current Disease Portfolio Table)
Tabla de enfermedades infecciosas del Programa especial de investigación y capacitación en enfermedades tropicales (TDR, por sus siglas en inglés) que contiene información detallada sobre la carga para la sociedad que representa cada enfermedad y el número de muertes que causa.

Publications

• Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Other Sources

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)

• Congenital Transmission of Chagas Disease — Virginia, 2010(July 6, 2012 / 61(26);477-479)
• Blood Donor Screening for Chagas Disease — United States, 2006--2007(February 23, 2007 / 56(07); 141-143)
• Chagas Disease After Organ Transplantation — Los Angeles, California, 2006(July 28, 2006 / 55(29);798-800)
• Chagas Disease After Organ Transplantation — United States, 2001(March 15, 2002 / 51(10);210-212)
• Global Disease Elimination and Eradication as Public Health Strategies(December 31, 1999 / 48 / Supplement)

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Emerging Infectious Diseases

• Infection of Kissing Bugs with Trypanosoma cruzi, Tucson, Arizona, USA(Vol. 16, No. 3–March 2010)
• Physician Awareness of Chagas Disease, USA(Vol. 16, No. 5 May 2010)
• Autochthonous Transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi, Louisiana(Vol. 13, No. 4 April 2007)
• Periurban Trypanosoma cruzi–infected Triatoma infestans, Arequipa, Peru(Vol. 12, No. 9 September 2006)
• Reinfestation Sources for Chagas Disease Vector, Triatoma infestans, Argentina(Vol. 12, No. 7 July 2006)
• Human Trypanosoma cruzi Infection and Seropositivity in Dogs, Mexico(Vol. 12, No. 4 April 2006)
• Genomic Changes of Chagas Disease Vector, South America(Vol. 10, No. 3 March 2004)
• Trypanosoma cruzi in Persons without Serologic Evidence of Disease, Argentina(Vol. 9, No. 12 December 2003)
• Congenital Transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi Infection in Argentina(Vol. 9, No. 1 January 2003)
• Chagas Disease in a Domestic Transmission Cycle, Southern Texas, USA(Vol. 9, No. 1 January 2003)
• Ecologic Niche Modeling and Potential Reservoirs for Chagas Disease, Mexico(Vol. 8, No. 7 July 2002)
• Emerging Chagas Disease: Trophic Network and Cycle of Transmission of Trypanosoma cruzifrom Palm Trees in the Amazon(Vol. 7, No. 1 January—February 2001)
• Bacterial Symbiosis in Arthropods and the Control of Disease Transmission(Vol. 4, No. 4 October-December 1998)
• Resurgent Vector-Borne Diseases as a Global Health Problem(Vol. 4, No. 3 July-September 1998)
• Blood Safety(Vol. 4, No. 3 July-September 1998)
• Risk for Transfusion-Transmitted Infectious Diseases in Central and South America(Vol. 4, No. 1 January-March 1998)
• Emerging Infectious Diseases — Brazil(Vol. 4. , No. 1 January-March 1998)

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Other Sources

• Chagas disease in Latin American immigrants with dilated cardiomyopathy in New York City
  Kapelusznik L, Varela D, Montgomery SP, Shah AN, Steurer FJ, Rubinstein D, Caplivski D, Pinney SP, Turker D, Factor SH
  Clinical Infectious Diseases 2013 Apr 12 [Epub ahead of print]
• Acute Chagas disease in a returning traveler
  Carter YL, Juliano JJ, Montgomery SP, Qvarnstrom Y
  American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygine 2012; 87:1038-40.
• Chagas Disease Often Asymptomatic But Can Be Life-threatening if Untreated 
  Murray DL, Burke A
  AAP News, May 1, 2012, Vol. 33 No. 5, p. 12
• The United States Trypanosoma cruzi Infection Study: Evidence for Vector-borne Transmission of the Parasite That Causes Chagas Disease Among United States Blood Donors
  Cantey PT, Stramer SL, Townsend RL, Kamel H, Ofafa K, Todd CW, Currier M, Hand S, Varnado W, Dotson E, Hall C, Jett PL, Montgomery SP
  Transfusion, March 8, 2012, Published Online
• Trypanosoma cruzi and Chagas' disease in the United States
  Bern C, Kjos S, Yabsley MJ, Montgomery SP
  Clinical Microbiology Reviews, 2011, Vol. 24, pp. 655-681
• Antitrypanosomal Therapy for Chronic Chagas' Disease
  Bern, Caryn
  New England Journal of Medicine, 2011, June 30, 2011, Vol. 364, pp. 2527-2534.
• Screening and Treatment of Chagas Disease in Organ Transplant Recipients in the United States: Recommendations from the Chagas in Transplant Working Group
  Chin-Hong, P. V., Schwartz, B. S., Bern, C., Montgomery, S. P., Kontak, S., Kubak, B., Morris, M. I., Nowicki, M., Wright, C. and Ison, M. G
  American Journal of Transplantation, 14 MAR 2011, Vol. 11(4), pp. 672-680
• Survey of Obstetrician-Gynecologists in the United States About Chagas Disease
  Verani J, Montgomery S, Schulkin J, Anderson B, Jones J
  American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2010, Vol.83(4), pp. 891–895
• Chagas disease
  Rassi A, Jr., Rassi A, Marin-Neto JA
  Lancet 2010;375:1388-402.
• An Estimate of the Burden of Chagas Disease in the United States
  Bern C, Montgomery SP
  Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2009, Vol. 49(5), pp. e52–e54
• Evaluation and Treatment of Chagas Disease in the United States: A Systematic Review.
  Bern C, Montgomery SP, Herwaldt BL, Rassi A, Marin-Neto JA, Dantas RO, et al
  The Journal of the American Medical Association, 2007, Vol. 298(18), pp. 2171-2181
• The impact of Chagas disease control in Latin America: a review
  Dias JCP, Silveira AC, Schofield CJ
  Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2002, Vol. 97, pp. 603-612
• Trypanosoma cruzi in Los Angeles and Miami blood donors: impact of evolving donor demographics on seroprevalence and implications for transfusion transmission.
  Leiby DA, Herron RM, Read EJ, Lenes BA, Stumpf RJ
  Transfusion, 2002, Vol. 42, pp. 549-555
• Laboratory-acquired parasitic infections from accidental exposures
  Herwaldt BL
  Clinical Microbiology Reviews, 2001, Vol. 14, pp. 659-688
• Use of polymerase chain reaction to diagnose the fifth reported US case of autochthonous transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi, in Tennessee, 1998
  Herwaldt BL, Grijalva MJ, Newsome AL, McGhee CR, Powell MR, Nemec DG, et al. The Journal of Infectious Disease, 2000, Vol. 181, pp. 395-399
• American Trypanosomiasis (Chagas' Disease) - A Tropical Disease Now in the United States
  Kirchhoff LV
  The New England Journal of Medicine, 1993, Vol. 329, pp. 639-644
• Chagas' Heart Disease in the United States
  Hagar JM, Rahimtoola SH
  The New England Journal of Medicine, 1991, Vol. 325, pp. 763-768