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* Distinguish from: [[Chaga mushroom]]
* Distinguish from: [[Chaga mushroom]]


==References==
* CDC, Division of Parasitic Diseases. [http://www.cdc.gov/NCIDOD/DPD/PARASITES/chagasdisease/factsht_chagas_disease.htm Chagas Disease Fact Sheet.] (23 September 2004). Accessed 24 September 2006.
* {{cite journal | author=Dumonteil E, Escobedo-Ortegon J, Reyes-Rodriguez N, Arjona-Torres A, Ramirez-Sierra M | title=Immunotherapy of Trypanosoma cruzi infection with DNA vaccines in mice. | journal=Infect Immun | volume=72 | issue=1 | pages=46–53 | year=2004 | id=PMID 14688079}}
* CDC, Division of Parasitic Diseases.[http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/chagasdisease/disease_chagas_disease.htm Chagas Disease](23 October 2007). Accessed 16 August 2007.
* CDC, Division of Parasitic Diseases.[http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/chagasdisease/epidemiology_chagas_disease.htm Chagas Disease Epidemiology.](23 October 2007). Accessed 16 August 2007.
*CDC, Division of Parasitic Diseases. [http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/chagasdisease/treatment_chagas_disease.htm Treatment](23 October 2007). Accessed 16 August 2007.


==Further reading==
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* {{cite journal | author=Coutinho M | title=Ninety years of Chagas disease: a success story at the periphery. | journal=Soc Stud Sci | volume=29 | issue=4 | pages=519-49 | year=1999 | id=PMID 11623933}}
* {{cite journal | author=Dias J, Silveira A, Schofield C | title=The impact of Chagas disease control in Latin America: a review. | journal=Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz | volume=97 | issue=5 | pages=603-12 | year=2002 | id=PMID 12219120 | url=http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0074-02762002000500002&tlng=es&lng=en&nrm=iso}}
* {{cite journal | author=Kropf S, Azevedo N, Ferreira L | title=Biomedical research and public health in Brazil: the case of Chagas' disease (1909–50). | journal=Soc Hist Med | volume=16 | issue=1 | pages=111-29 | year=2003 | id=PMID 14598820}}
* {{cite journal | year = 1999 | title = International Symposium to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the discovery of Chagas disease (Rio de Janeiro, April 11–16, 1999) | journal = Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz | volume = 94 | issue = Suppl. I | url =http://www.dbbm.fiocruz.br/tropical/chagas/memmain.html}}
* {{cite journal | author=Moncayo A | title=Progress towards interruption of transmission of Chagas disease. | journal=Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz | volume=94 Suppl 1 | pages=401-4 | id=PMID 10677765 | url=http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0074-02761999000700079&lng=en&nrm=iso}}
* {{cite journal | author=Prata A | title=Evolution of the clinical and epidemiological knowledge about Chagas disease 90 years after its discovery. | journal=Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz | volume=94 Suppl 1 | pages=81-8 | id=PMID 10677694 | url=http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0074-02761999000700008&lng=en&nrm=iso}}
* {{cite journal | author=Franco-Paredes C | title=Chagas disease: an impediment in achieving the Millennium Development Goals in Latin America. | journal=BMC International Health and Human Rights | volume=7 | pages=7 | year=2007 | id=PMID 17725836 | url=http://http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-698X/7/7/abstract}}
* {{cite book | editor = Kevin M. Tyler & Michael A. Miles | title = World Class Parasites. Volume 7: American Trypanosomiasis | publisher = Kluwer Academic Publishers | id = ISBN 1-4020-7323-2}} [http://www.amazon.com/dp/1402073232/ Amazon review]
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==External links==
* [http://www.paho.org/english/ad/dpc/cd/chagas.htm Chagas Disease]. PanAmerican Health Organization.
===Recent news and events===
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*[http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/search?fulltext=chagas&collection_num=MEDICINE&collections_search_keyword_go.x=0&collections_search_keyword_go.y=0 Science Magazine Search Results: ''Chagas'']

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