From Chicago, at the 41st Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
By disabling the parasite that causes Chagas disease, a simple drug might offer a way to stop this deadly condition that affects 18 million people in Latin America.
Chagas disease, which can damage the heart, results from infection by a parasite called Trypanosoma cruzi that’s spread by insects.
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