单词 | chagas disease |
释义 | Chagas' diseasen. 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. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > parasitic disorders > [noun] > trypanosomiasis sleepy sickness1803 Gambia fever1817 sleeping sickness1875 Negro lethargy1886 sleep disease1897 trypanosomiasis1902 trypanosomatosis1903 Gambian1904 Chagas' disease1912 1912 Jrnl. 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. 1922 Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 896/2 Other Reduviid bugs have been shown to transmit the trypanosome of Chagas's disease in South America. 1959 T. R. E. Southwood & D. Leston Land & Water Bugs Brit. Isles 152 The members of the subfamily Triatominae are blood suckers... In South America they carry Chagas' disease, a human trypanosomiasis. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1912 |
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