Emerging chagas disease / editors, Antonio Teixeira, Marina Vinaud, Ana Maria Castro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Teixeira, António, Author.

Contributor:

Teixeira, António.

Vinaud, Marina.

Castro, Ana Maria.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chagas' disease.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 180 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Brazil] : Bentham Books, [2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The book focuses on a global problem challenging the health systems. Trypanosoma cruzi infections are transmitted by cone-nosed triatomine bugs, by blood transfusion and congenitally from mothers to their offspring. The American Trypanosomiasis affects 20 million people; among them a significant parcel (< 1/3) will develop Chagas disease in the heart and digestive tract, where the immune system effector cells destroy target host cells. Genotype modifications resulting from transfer of minicircle sequence kDNA from the parasite into the host ́s genome may explain the autoimmune pathogenesis.

Contents:

01 Title; 02 Cover Page; 03 REVISED eBooks End User License Agreement-Website; 04 Contents; 05 Foreword; 06 Preface; 07 Contributors; 08 Chapter 1; 09 Chapter 2; 10 Chapter 3; 11 Chapter 4; 12 Chapter 5; 13 Chapter 6; 14 Chapter 7; 15 Chapter 8; 16 Chapter 9 FINAL; 17 Chapter 10; 18 Chapter 11; 19 Chapter 12; 20 Chapter 13; 21 Chapter 14; 21 Chapter 15; 23 Chapter 16; 24 Chapter 17; 25 Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781608050413

1608050416

OCLC:

779141378