A serological, parasitological and clinical evaluation of untreated Chagas disease patients and those treated with benznidazole before and thirteen years after intervention

The etiological treatment of Chagas disease is recommended for all patients with acute or recent chronic infection, but controversies remain regarding the benefit of chemotherapy and interpretations of the parasitological cure after etiological treatment. This study compares the laboratory and clini...

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Published in:	Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
Main Authors:	Girley Francisco Machado-de-Assis, Glaucia Alessio Diniz, Roberto Araujo Montoya, Joao Carlos Pinto Dias, Jose Rodrigues Coura, George Luiz Lins Machado-Coelho, Pedro Albajar-Vinas, Rosalia Morais Torres, Marta de Lana
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ) 2013-11-01
Subjects:	Chagas disease benznidazole serological and clinical evaluation Trypanosoma cruzi etiological treatment
Online Access:	http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0074-02762013000700873&lng=en&tlng=en