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Chagas'(s) disease|ˈtʃɑːgəs|
[f. the name of Carlos Chagas, Sr. (1879–1934), Brazilian physician.]
A progressive trypanosomiasis, often fatal in young children, which is endemic in South and Central America and in Africa and is due to Trypanosoma cruzi, a parasite carried by armadillos and certain other mammals and transmitted by various blood-sucking bugs of the family Reduviidæ.
1912Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 27 July 318/1 Chagas' Disease... The trypanosomiasis or parasitic thyroiditis caused by the Schizotrypanum cruzi, the parasite first described by Chagas. 1922Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 896/2 Other Reduviid bugs have been shown to transmit the trypanosome of Chagas's disease in South America. 1959Southwood & Leston Land & Water Bugs 152 The members of the subfamily Triatominae are blood suckers... In South America they carry Chagas' disease, a human trypanosomiasis. |