Chagas disease
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- noun
- /ˈtʃɑːɡəs dɪˈziːz/
- Specialized
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enfermedad de Chagas
- If left untreated, Chagas disease can lead to severe heart problems many years after the initial infection.
- chronic Chagas disease
- acute phase of Chagas disease
- phase of Chagas disease
Examples
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Chagas disease is one of the most important neglected diseases in Latin America.
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The treatment of Chagas disease involves both parasite-specific and adjunctive therapies for the management of heart failure and arrhythmias.
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New possible strategies to treat Chagas disease.
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Thus, it is possible to reason that TNF plays a complex role during Chagas disease.
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His research interests include Chagas disease and other aspects of immigrant medicine.
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To avoid any possibility of transmission, human milk banks should exclude mothers with Chagas disease as donors.
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Other forms of treatment are under evaluation to prevent Chagas disease, including parasite-driven therapies and vaccination strategies.
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In some patients, the evolution to the chronic phase of Chagas disease is synonymous with severe heart failure accompanied by cardiac arrhythmias.
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Chagas disease is a serious condition caused by a parasite that primarily affects people in Chagas disease regions of Latin America.
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Early diagnosis and treatment of Chagas disease are crucial to prevent long-term complications.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Chagas + disease
This is an eponymous name: 'Chagas' is a proper name with no lexical meaning for learners, so knowing 'disease' only yields a generic notion of illness but not the specific tropical, parasitic, vector-borne condition. The specific clinical and epidemiological content (parasite, insect transmission, chronic heart/digestive effects) cannot be derived from the constituent words, making the expression unpredictable to a B1 learner.
Etymology
The illness Chagas disease is named after Brazilian doctor Carlos Chagas, who first found the tiny parasite that causes it. He saw the link when he studied people bitten by 'kissing bugs' in poor rural houses, so the disease now carries his name.