Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Foreword
Chapter I – Chagas Disease in Brazil: Historical Aspects
(Simone Petraglia Kropf, History of Science and Health, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro-RJ, Brazil)
Chapter II – <i>Trypanosoma cruzi</i>, the Etiologic Agent of Chagas Disease
(Fernanda Ramos Gadelha, Departamento de Bioquímica, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas-SP, Brazil)
Chapter III – Epidemiology of Chagas Disease
(João Carlos Pinto Dias and José Rodrigues Coura, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and others)
Chapter IV – Clinical Aspects of the Disease
(Eros Antônio de Almeida, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas-SP, Brazil)
Chapter V – Clinical and Laboratory Diagnosis
(Marta de Lana, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Ouro-Preto-MG, Brazil)
Chapter VI – Chagas Disease Treatment
(Eduardo de Figueiredo Peloso, Departamento de Bioquímica, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas-SP, Brazil)
Chapter VII – New Targets for the Development of an Improved Therapy for Chagas Disease
(Eduardo de Figueiredo Peloso and Fernanda Ramos Gadelha, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas-SP, Brazil)
Index