CHAGAS' DISEASE


Meaning of CHAGAS' DISEASE in English

ˈshägəs(ə̇z)-, -ag- noun

Usage: usually capitalized C

Etymology: after Carlos Chagas died 1934 Braz. physician who described it

: a trypanosomiasis of tropical America marked by prolonged high fever, edema, and enlargement of spleen, liver, and lymph nodes and caused by a flagellate ( Trypanosoma cruzi ) which is transmitted by reduviid bugs and occurs in flagellated form in the blood and as leishmanial reproductive forms in tissue (as heart muscle)

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