9. CARLOS
CHAGAS
Chagas disease, also
known as American
trypanosomiasis, is a
tropical parasitic
disease caused by the
flagellate protozoan
Trypanosoma cruzi.
It is characterized because is a parasites
that can seriously injure the heart and
the digestive and nervous system.
10. Are estimated to be infected
with Chagas disease between 15
and 17 million people each year,
of which about 50,000 die.
Poorest rural
areas of Latin United States
America
11. • One of the 13 most neglected
WHO tropical diseases in the world.
• Disease of poverty.
PAHO
12. Trypanosoma cruzi, the causative agent of the disease,
is a member of the genus Trypanosoma, which is the
same genus as the infectious agent that causes African
sleeping sickness (African trypanosomiasis).
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17. Signs and different symptoms
Signs and symptoms of typhoid fever
• Heavy sweating.
• There leukopenia and
relative lymphocytosis
eosinopenia
18. • Delirium is frequent (This
delirium gives to typhoid
fever called nerve).
intestinal bleeding due to
congestion of the Peyer's
patches (serious but not
necessarily fatal).
19. • Signs and Symptoms of Chagas
Disease
The sign of Romagna is characteristic of
Chagas' disease
acute infection and swelling of the eye
20. • local cutaneous nodule called
chagoma inoculation.
The patient can develop unilateral
periorbital edema, conjunctivitis and
preauricular lymphadenitis