Just compare: Foreshortened apical view Vs. true ventricular apex.
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Slooooow-motion footage of our 1 liter E. coli fermentations, expressing recombinant proteins for new vaccine candidates against Chagas disease #chagasdisease Ana Carolina Leão BCM_TropMed
👀Live from the clinical lab: Trypanosoma cruzi trypomastigote in a thin blood film. Note the typical shape of the parasite with the large kinetoplast and the undulating membrane. #Thinkparasite #chagasdisease
It's #WorldChagasDiseaseDay
#ChagasDisease is a potentially life-threatening illness, transmitted through contact with the faeces or urine of a triatomine bug found mainly in Latin America.
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#ChagasDisease affects 7 million people, most of them from low-income communities with limited access to health care. On #WorldChagasDiseaseDay , we call on countries to strengthen primary health care, so that the disease can be detected early enough and lives can be saved.
It's #WorldChagasDiseaseDay
#ChagasDisease has the most disproportionate impact among Latin America's impoverished communities but it is increasingly detected in other parts of the world.
With an estimated 6-7M people infected globally and high mortality rates, it poses a…
#ChagasDisease it's global. #California in 🇺🇸>100K cases #Europe deals with blood transfusions and breastfeeding #Spain #Italy . The CHASE project aims to inform &🛑spread. It targets Latinos & 🇩🇪 medical providers. Free tests & treatments at Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine #infectneXT Ricardo Strauss
Today is Chagas awareness day. I wish we didn’t need a “day” to remember that there are millions infected and we need to so more about it #ChagasDisease #WorldChagasDiseaseDay
I'm Rosa Isela, an #Immunologist . I'm intrigued by how our T cells combat #Trypanosomacruzi , causing #ChagasDisease . Why do only 30% get sick? What makes the immune systems of the other 70% more effective in fighting it off? Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine Thomas Jacobs, Ph.D.
Promising! The mRNA vaccine candidates against Chagas disease that we are testing in-house are generating besides cellular immune responses also humoral antibody responses. The yellow color in the wells indicate a strong presence of immunoglobin 2c #chagasdisease BCM_TropMed
New paper alert‼️ Check out this report on the infection of Triatoma sanguisuga with T. cruzi 🧬 in the Mid-Atlantic U.S., which further expands the knowledge about this vector in its northern range🧑🏻🔬 #Chagasdisease
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The spread of #ChagasDisease can be prevented by:
✅ vector control
✅ good hygiene
✅ food safety
✅ screening of blood donors & women of childbearing age
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Addressing #ChagasDisease early is key to treating it:
✅ Contact your doctor if you live or have travelled to an area at risk of Chagas & experience symptoms
✅ 2 medicines are effective in curing the disease if given soon after infection
A study shows that gene editing of kissing bugs, a primary vector for #Chagasdisease , is made possible through #CRISPRCas9 technology for the first time. Read details in #BiotechUpdates : tinyurl.com/yc2hzkyn
Trypanosoma cruzi infection reduces the population fitness of Mepraia spinolai, a Chagas disease vector: doi.org/10.1111/mve.12… #Reduviidae #Trypanosoma #InsectVectors #ChagasDisease
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Remember: beware of foreshortened images in #ChagasDisease
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