Chagas Disease: History of a Continent's Scourge

by François Delaporte

Book Overview

Fran?ois Delaporte's Chagas Disease chronicles Brazilian medicine's encounter with a disease, an insect, and a history of discovery. Between 1909 and 1911, Carlos Chagas described an infection (pathogenic trypanosome), its intermediate host, and the illness that he believed it caused, parasitic thyroiditis. Chagas's work did not lack significance: the disease that came to share his name would be one of Latin America's most serious endemic diseases...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823242501
• ISBN13: 9780823242504
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"