Risk of Chronic Cardiomyopathy Among Patients With the Acute Phase or Indeterminate Form of Chagas Disease

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Approximately 6 million people in Latin America have Chagas disease, and more than 70 million people are at risk of developing the infection.1 The hemoflagellate protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi is the infectious agent. Transmission is most commonly vectorial through a bite from the triatomine insect (commonly known as the kissing bug). Other important routes of T cruzi transmission are oral (through food or drink contaminated with triatomine feces or secretions from infected mammals), vertical (or congenital, from mother to child during pregnancy), organ transplantation, blood transfusion, and unintentional laboratory exposure.

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