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Chagas Disease
Websites
Information from the World Health Organization.
http://www.who.int/tdr/diseases/chagas/
Images of the causative parasite and brief information about the disease.
http://www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~parasite/chagas.html
Detailed information from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/chagasdisease/
A study of the disease by Dr. Joseph Bastien.
http://www.uta.edu/chagas/
Debasish Chattopadhyay's Structural Biology Laboratory is studying the DHFR and PTR enzymes of Trypanosoma cruzi for structure-based design of specific inhibitors of these enzymes. For this purpose, they have determined the crystal structure of substrate and inhibitor complexes of T. cruzi PTR at high resolution.
http://info.dom.uab.edu/geomed/debasish/chagas.html
Full text article by Daniel E Lyman, Fernando A. Monteiro, Ananias A. Escalante, Celia Cordon-Rosales, Dawn M. Wesson, Jean-Pierre Dujardin, and Charles B. Beard.
http://www.tulane.edu/~wesson/Pubs/030199/
Directory of news, articles, and factsheets.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/chagasdisease.html
Factsheet with cause, symptoms, risk factors, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.
http://www.astdhpphe.org/infect/Chagas.html
Brief information about Chagas' and other diseases caused by parasites of the Trypanosomatidae family (leishmaniasis and African sleeping sickness).
http://www.sbri.org/diseases/chagas.asp