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Chagas: Opportunity for Testing Companies as US Army, CDC Get Involved

In Kalorama Information’s Emerging Infections Testing report (https://kaloramainformation.com/product/emerging-infectious-disease-diagnostics-markets-and-trends/) , we discussed Chagas.  Chagas disease is named after the Brazilian physician Carlos Ribeiro Justiniano Chagas, who discovered the disease in 1909. Chagas disease (Trypanosoma cruzi, known as kissing bugs) is also referred to as American trypanosomiasis. It is endemic throughout Mexico, and Central and South America, and is caused […]