Chagas' disease
Chagas' disease
Definition
Cha·gas' disease (s̸hä′gəs)
noun
a type of trypanosomiasis, common in Central and South America, caused by a parasite (Trypanosoma cruzi) that is carried by reduviid insects, and characterized by the eventual invasion and deterioration of cardiac, gastrointestinal, and nervous tissue
Etymology: after Carlos Chagas, Brazilian physician who identified it (1909)
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