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Chagas Disease
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Chagas Disease
Chembio Receives $1.2 Million Order for Chagas STAT-PAK(TM) Rapid ... Jan 19, 2006
...possesses expertise in the development and manufacturing of rapid test products for various infectious diseases, including HIV, Tuberculosis and Chagas Disease ...
- Genetic Engineering News,
Institute for OneWorld Health CEO To Speak at World Economic Forum ... Jan 23, 2006
...effective, affordable new medicines for people with diseases of the developing world, including visceral leishmaniasis, malaria, diarrhea, and Chagas disease. ...
- Genetic Engineering News,
Argentina, Brazil to jointly make anti-AIDS drugs Jan 18, 2006
The new cross-border drug venture will also make medicine to treat the deadly Chagas disease, transmitted by a blood-sucking parasite, and leishmaniasis, a ...
- Reuters AlertNet,
Charges of Abuse Cast Cloud on Ethanol Boom Jan 13, 2006
...was proven. The latest death was caused by Chagas disease.". Chagas disease is transmitted by a parasite-carrying insect. But there ...
- Inter Press Service (subscription),
Argentina and Brazil join forces to produce AIDS drugs Jan 19, 2006
The joint drug venture will also produce drugs to treat the deadly Chagas disease, transmitted by a blood-sucking parasite, and leishmaniasis, a skin disease ...
- News-Medical.net,
Sanitation projects are expected to improve the health of 3.3 ... Jan 17, 2006
...in residential sanitary conditions, such as bathroom additions, drainage systems, garbage treatment, and housing improvements for the control of Chagas' disease ...
- Agencia Brasil,
European Parliament Hearing on Neglected Diseases Jan 19, 2006
...neglected diseases. These diseases include AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, leishmansis, Chagas disease and sleeping sickness. Furthermore ...
- European Public Health Alliance,
Two New Malaria Treatments Available In 2006 Dec 28, 2005
...new, improved, and field-relevant drugs for neglected diseases - such as leishmaniasis, human African trypanosomiasis, and Chagas disease - that afflict the ...
- Medical News Today (press release),
Chembio Announces Preliminary Revenue for the Fourth Quarter and ... Jan 9, 2006
We also believe that our Chagas disease rapid test will produce meaningful revenue early in 2006, and that we will also receive USDA approval for at least one ...
- Market Wire (press release)
Pop science Jan 6, 2006
Of particular interest to Cohen is Chagas’ disease, caused by an insect-borne parasite similar to the one responsible for African sleeping sickness. ...
- The RU Scientist,
Beating back ancient scourges of the poor Jan 1, 2006
Together, these conditions -- with their exotic names of African sleeping sickness, kala-azar, Chagas disease, lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis), river ...
- Fort Worth Star Telegram,
Agreement with World Health Organization (WHO) Renewed: Medicines ... Nov 16, 2005
16, 2005 – Bayer HealthCare AG is supporting the World Health Organization (WHO) in the fight against Chagas disease with a further donation of medicine. ...
- PharmaLive.com (press release),
European Medicines Agency gives first positive opinions on ... Nov 20, 2005
...trachoma, leishmaiasis, schistosomiasis, African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness), onchocerciasis (river blindness), dengue fever, Chagas disease, leprosy. ...
- Medical News Today (press release),
Tropical disease research gets £8m funding boost Oct 25, 2005
Despite their prevalence, many of the diseases - including African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and Leishmaniasis - have attracted little interest from ...
- EducationGuardian.co.uk,
Clinical Briefs For November 2005 Oct 30, 2005
...have determined genetic blueprints for the parasites that cause three deadly insect-borne diseases: African sleeping sickness, leishmaniasis and Chagas disease ...
- U.S. Medicine,
£8M BOOST ON DISEASE Oct 25, 2005
They'll concentrate on the likes of African sleeping sickness, Chagas' disease and leishmaniasis that affect millions and kill about 140,000 each year. ...
- Glasgow Daily Record,
Illness virtually unknown in US Nov 8, 2005
Chagas disease, a degenerative disorder most prevalent in the Americas yet affecting 20 million people worldwide, is being researched in Athens. ...
- Red and Black
£8.1 million for drug discovery at Dundee Oct 26, 2005
The diseases, which include African sleeping sickness, Chagas' disease and leishmaniasis, are among the most neglected in the world, affecting millions of the ...
- Scottish Enterprise,
Taking care of orphans Oct 26, 2005
...a central and south American cousin called T. cruzi: a bite from an assassin bug can sentence you to decades of a chronic illness called Chagas' disease and a ...
- EducationGuardian.co.uk,
Institute for OneWorld Health Offers Global Health Experts for ... Nov 2, 2005
Chagas disease infects an estimated 10-14 million people within the 19 endemic countries of Central and South America. And, some ...
- Genetic Engineering News,
University hunts cure for parasitic infections Oct 25, 2005
...diseases. Sleeping sickness, leishmaniasis and Chagas' disease are all caused by parasites spread by blood-sucking insects. Between ...
- EducationGuardian.co.uk,
Robert Langridge: A computer-modeling pioneer Nov 14, 2005
As hoped, computer modeling has generated potential new medications, including one to fight the parasite that causes Chagas' disease, which afflicts some 16 ...
- Napa Valley Register,
Chembio Supports Partnership for Creating Sustainable HIV Programs ... Oct 27, 2005
...possesses expertise in the development and manufacturing of rapid test products for various infectious diseases, including HIV, Tuberculosis and Chagas Disease ...
- Market Wire (press release)
: Autumn Triggers Rodents to Move Indoors! Nov 7, 2005
...are trichinosis, leptospirosis, tuleremia, Lassa fever, lymphocytic choriomeningitis, dysentery, swine fever, Newcastle disease, Chagas’ disease, foot and ...
- NewsReleaseWire.com (press release)
£8.1m to fight neglected diseases Oct 25, 2005
...discoveries into candidate drugs ready for clinical trials to treat a range of killer diseases including sleeping sickness, Chagas' disease and leishmaniasis. ...
- Scotsman,
Scientists given £8m to fight tropical diseases Oct 25, 2005
African sleeping sickness, Chagas' disease, and leishmaniasis are among the most neglected in the world and, because it is the poor they affect, they have ...
- The Herald,
Protists push animals aside in rule revamp Nov 2, 2005
But Michael Gaunt, who studies the Chagas' disease parasite at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, is less convinced that the change will have ...
- Nature.com (subscription),
Make ajc.com your homepage: Nov 7, 2005
Think about the fact that the food handlers at your favorite restaurant may not have been tested for drug-resistant tuberculosis or the deadly Chagas disease.). ...
- Atlanta Journal Constitution (subscription),
Dundee University given massive funding boost to help combat ... Oct 25, 2005
African Sleeping Sickness and others like Chagas disease and Leishmaniases are among the world's most neglected tropical diseases. ...
- grampian tv,
Know more about Chagas Disease Sep 7, 2005
How is Chagas disease transmitted? ... Chagas disease has two consecutive stages: acute and chronic. The acute stage may become manifest at any age. ...
- noticias.info (press release)
/ARTS WEEKLY/FILM-ARGENTINA: Fighting Chagas' Disease, Camera in ... Aug 30, 2005
His first film, a documentary, focuses on the often deadly Chagas' disease, which affects an estimated 16 to 18 million people in Latin America, with around ...
- Inter Press Service (subscription)
Scientists protest Cell retraction Sep 29, 2005
How infection with the intracellular parasite, Trypanosoma cruzi, results in the development of chronic Chagas disease has been a mystery. ...
- Scientist
Chagas treatment: Far from ideal Sep 7, 2005
...lives. An effective treatment exists for congenital infections, for the acute and the indeterminate chronic stages of Chagas disease. ...
- noticias.info (press release)
Parsing Parasites Sep 25, 2005
This past summer three international groups published the DNA sequences of the parasites that cause Chagas' disease, African sleeping sickness and leishmaniasis ...
- Scientific American
UNR researcher works to dehydrate malarial mosquitoes Sep 18, 2005
He said the "kissing bug," named for its habit of biting people near the lips as they sleep, spreads the deadly Chagas' disease that affects some 15 million ...
- Reno Gazette Journal
Chembio's HIV 1/2 Test Now the Confirmatory Test in Uganda Sep 21, 2005
...possesses expertise in the development and manufacturing of rapid test products for various infectious diseases, including HIV, Tuberculosis and Chagas Disease ...
- Market Wire (press release)
Kinnock plea for African sick Sep 7, 2005
Kinnock today called for more money to be spent on research into neglected diseases that are blighting Africa, such as sleeping sickness and Chagas' disease. ...
- News Wales
Upcoming World Summit Offers Rare Opportunity to Redesign the UN ... Sep 8, 2005
In 1980, WHO certified that the disease had been conquered globally. It is now nearing similar successes with polio, leprosy, guinea worm, and Chagas disease. ...
- Harold Doan and Associates (press release)
Poor drugs get a rich dad Sep 15, 2005
...at different stages of development to address identified needs for the treatment of visceral leishmaniasis, sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and malaria. ...
- Economic Times
Republicans must keep focus on woes caused by illegal immigration Aug 29, 2005
...wiped out years ago, such as malaria, polio, tuberculosis, and hepatitis, and rare diseases of Third World poverty such as leprosy, Chagas' disease, and dengue ...
- Town Hall
Cardiac Gene Expression Profiling Provides Evidence for ...Jul 27, 2005
Chronic Chagas’ disease cardiomyopathy is a leading cause of congestive heart failure in Latin America, affecting more than 3 million people. ...
- Am J Pathology (subscription)
Researchers at UGA provide first look at protein expression in ...Jul 15, 2005
Nearly 20 million people worldwide are infected with a parasitic ailment called Chagas Disease, and nearly a third of those will develop severe heart trouble. ...
- Innovations-Report
Parasite Genome Sequences Offer Hope for New Drugs and VaccinesJul 15, 2005
Scientists have sequenced and compared the genomes of three of the parasites responsible for sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and leishmaniasis, three ...
- RedNova.com
Genes Research to Aid Third World Disease FightJul 15, 2005
Scientists have decoded the genetic blueprints of the parasitic microbes responsible for African sleeping sickness, Chagas' disease and leishmaniasis, which ...
- RedNova.com
Three Deadly Parasite Genomes SequencedJul 14, 2005
...have determined genetic blueprints for the parasites that cause three deadly insect-borne diseases: African sleeping sickness, leishmaniasis and Chagas disease ...
- Medical News Today
Researchers Sequence Three Deadly Parasite GenomesJul 15, 2005
Genetic blueprints for the parasites that cause three deadly insect-borne diseases -- African sleeping sickness, leishmaniasis and Chagas disease -- are now ...
- Daily News Central
Deadly parasites show common genetic coreJul 15, 2005
The three parasites – the culprits behind African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and leishmaniasis – cause markedly varying diseases and are carried by ...
- ScienceBlog.com
Scientists sequence the genomes of three species of parasites ...Jul 17, 2005
HHMI) scientists who participated in the project say the sequencing of the genomes of the parasitic protozoa that cause Chagas disease, African sleeping ...
- News-Medical.net
Three deadly parasites share common genesJul 15, 2005
...reported Thursday to have determined genetic blueprints for parasites causing three deadly diseases--African sleeping sickness, leishmaniasis and Chagas disease ...
- EastDay.com
Tropical disease codes crackedJul 14, 2005
The three parasites - responsible for African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and leishmania diseases - together infect 20-30 million people worldwide and ...
- Daily Mail - UK
News In BriefJul 26, 2005
Chagas disease, spread through the infected feces of an insect—sometimes called the 'kissing bug' (pictured right) for its habit of biting near a person's ...
- Nature.com (subscription)
Scientists Unravel Genetic Material of 3 Deadly ParasitesJul 14, 2005
...countries worked for five years to decipher the genetic blueprints of the single-cell parasites that cause sleeping sickness, leishmaniasis and Chagas disease. ...
- Voice of America
Parasite Gene Discovery Could Be World Health BreakthroughJul 14, 2005
...impact world health by pointing to drugs or vaccines that could be used against common weak points in the protozoa that cause Chagas disease, African sleeping ...
- Daily News Central
Genome Sequences for Three Deadly Parasites Provide Foundation for ...Jul 15, 2005
The sequences of these related parasites – which cause African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and leishmaniasis – provide a foundation for developing ...
- RedNova.com
Gene 'Maps' Show Way to Beat Killer DiseasesJul 15, 2005
Scientists have decoded the genetic blueprints of the parasitic microbes responsible for African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and Leishmaniasis, which ...
- RedNova.com
Old World Parasites Get New World TreatmentJul 15, 2005
Three parasite-originating diseases, African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease, and Leishmaniasis, are widespread and currently incurable on the African ...
- WebProNews
THE DISEASESJul 20, 2005
Chagas disease, caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, is endemic to Central and South America and is the world's leading cause of heart disease. ...
- OregonLive.com
Three Tropical Parasites Genetic Code UnravelledJul 17, 2005
Scientists have now cracked the genetic makeup three fatal diseases –sleeping sickness, leishmaniasis and Chagas disease that are caused by Trypanosoma brucei ...
- MedIndia
A Lab Builds Better Barriers Against Invading ParasitesJul 25, 2005
...on the five neglected diseases of mankind - malaria; schistosomiasis; leishmaniasis, aka the Baghdad boil; African sleeping sickness; and Chagas' disease. ...
- New York Times
Undergraduates spend summer researchingJul 28, 2005
...studying Trypanosoma cruzi, a parasite he said is linked to one of the world’s leading causes of congestive heart failure and sudden death — Chagas Disease ...
- Red and Black
Nation/WorldJul 15, 2005
...affect world health by pointing to drugs or vaccines that could be used against common weak points in the protozoa that cause Chagas disease, African sleeping ...
- Birmingham Post Herald
3 parasites' shared genes yield cluesJul 15, 2005
The research opens the possibility of finding drugs that would fight all three ancient scourges: African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and leishmaniasis. ...
- Seattle Times
Scientists decode deadly parasite genomesJul 15, 2005
The international team said they had mapped out the genomes of the parasites that cause African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and leishmaniasis, which kill ...
- Independent Online
Scientists crack secret of sleeping sicknessJul 14, 2005
Between them, sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and leishmaniasis threaten half a billion of the world's poorest people and kill more than 150,000 a year. ...
- Hindu
Gene scientists win crucial battle in the war against killer ...Jul 15, 2005
The work promises the development of a new generation of drugs and vaccines for African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and leishmaniasis, a family of insect ...
- Times Online
Scientists Decode DNA of 3 Deadly ParasitesJul 15, 2005
The three illnesses in question are African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and leishmaniasis. ... Trypanosoma cruzi , which causes Chagas disease. ...
- Elites TV
Scientists map genes of three fatal parasitesJul 15, 2005
The research opens the possibility of finding drugs that would fight African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and leishmaniasis. ...
- OCRegister (subscription)
North, South American Researchers Find Architectural Abnormalities ...Jul 4, 2005
Aires, Argentina have combined their expertise to identify two peculiar features of the protein-making machinery of the parasite that causes Chagas disease. ...
- AScribe
International researchers sequence genomes of developing world ...Jul 18, 2005
The completion of the genome sequence for the three protozoan parasites responsible for sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and leishmaniasis is described in the ...
- ResearchResearch
Orphan Diseases, Collaborative Biology and Sequencing ParasitesJul 14, 2005
...the genomes of the parasites leading to some of the worst diseases in the developing world: African sleeping sickness, leishmaniasis and Chagas disease. ...
- WorldChanging
Analysis Identifies Common Genetic Core for Trio of ParasitesJul 17, 2005
...to reports published in the current issue of the journal Science, the parasites responsible for African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and leishmaniasis ...
- Scientific American
Three Dangerous Parasites Share Genetic CoreJul 16, 2005
Three single-cell parasites responsible for three diseases — African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and leishmaniasis — share a ...
- Los Angeles Times
Leading Article: GENE SEQUENCING - A Stunning Success in the Fight ...Jul 15, 2005
...countries. But people in the developed world are much less likely to have heard of Chagas' disease, leishmaniasis and sleeping sickness. ...
- RedNova.com
Parasite Genomes Sequenced 7/15/05Jul 15, 2005
...brucei (T. brucei), Trypanosoma cruzi (T. cruzi), and Leishmania major (L. major) are responsible for sleeping sickness, Chagas disease, and leishmaniasis ...
- Bioscience Technology
Dr. James Koziarz Joins Newly Formed Chembio Advisory Board; Led ...Jul 26, 2005
...possesses expertise in the development and manufacturing of rapid test products for various infectious diseases, including HIV, Tuberculosis and Chagas Disease ...
- Genetic Engineering News
Trypanosomes at the GatesJul 14, 2005
...breakdown of social and economic infrastructure. Trypanosoma cruzi is responsible for Chagas' disease. It primarily affects rural South ...
- Science Magazine (subscription)
Deadly Parasite Genomes Sequenced By International TeamJul 15, 2005
Trypanosoma brucei, which causes African sleeping sickness, Trypanosoma cruzi, which causes Chagas' disease, and Leishmania major, which causes cutaneous ...
- I-Newswire.com
Parasites' genetic code 'cracked'Jul 14, 2005
Their understanding should help with treatments for Chagas disease, African sleeping sickness and leishmaniasis caused by the three pathogens. ...
- BBC News
The Genome Sequence of Trypanosoma cruzi, Etiologic Agent of ...Jul 14, 2005
22 Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Chagas Disease, Instituto de Investigaciones en Ingeniería Genética y Biología Molecular, National Research Council ...
- Science Magazine (subscription)
Parasites’ Genomes NailedJul 15, 2005
The research, published in the journal Science, will provide new insights into how to tackle African sleeping sickness, leishmaniasis, and Chagas disease. ...
- Red Herring
Scientists crack DNA for three Third World diseasesJul 20, 2005
...one of them Portland-based, has mapped the genes of the three deadly parasites that cause African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and leishmaniasis. ...
- OregonLive.com
Parasites’ genomes may reveal common weak spotJul 14, 2005
By comparing newly published genomes of parasites which cause sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and Leishmaniasis, researchers have discovered thousands of ...
- New Scientist (subscription)
Summary Box: Deadly Parasite Genes MappedJul 14, 2005
...gene mapping opens the possibility of finding drugs that would fight all three ancient scourges: African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and leishmaniasis. ...
- San Francisco Chronicle
Common Genetics Key to Fighting Deadly ParasitesJul 14, 2005
THURSDAY, July 14 (HealthDay News) -- Three different parasites driving three tropical diseases -- sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and leishmaniasis -- have ...
- Forbes
Oregon Health & Science Univ Scientist Helps Analyze Sleeping ...Jul 20, 2005
It causes Chagas disease, which infects 16 million to 18 million people in 21 countries, according to the World Health Organization. ...
- CentralPointNews.com
Comparative Genomics of Trypanosomatid Parasitic ProtozoaJul 14, 2005
2005). The Genome Sequence of Trypanosoma cruzi, Etiologic Agent of Chagas Disease. Science 309: 409-415 [Abstract] [Full Text]. ...
- Science Magazine (subscription)
A Field Day for Fast ComputingJul 14, 2005
The parasite Trypanosoma cruzi goes through four life-cycle stages during its development in insects and humans; in humans, it causes Chagas disease. ...
- Science Magazine (subscription)
Institute for OneWorld Health Receives Lehman Brothers Foundation ...Jul 7, 2005
...for infectious diseases that disproportionately affect people in the developing world, including visceral leishmaniasis, malaria, diarrhea and Chagas disease. ...
- CSRwire.com
Scientists crack deadly parasites' gene codesJul 14, 2005
...published today in the journal Science, opens the way to developing safe and effective treatments for sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and leishmaniasis. ...
- Financial Times
Three Deadly Parasite Genomes SequencedJul 14, 2005
N El-Sayed et al. The genome sequence of Trypanosoma cruzi, etiologic agent of Chagas disease. Science DOI: 10.1126 (2005). M Berriman et al. ...
- PharmaLive.com
Those Dirty Mexicans--Oh, Really?Jul 3, 2005
...might think. "Bedbugs may be a vector for hepatitis B and, in endemic areas, for American trypanosomiasis (Chagas disease)." [3]. So ...
- American Chronicle
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