"It can be between 10 and 30 years before people develop symptoms so most are unaware they have Chagas, often called a “silent and silenced disease”. Some will never develop symptoms but up to a third suffer heart damage, which can lead to progressive heart failure or sudden death. Others (up to 10%) may experience abnormal enlargement of the colon or oesophagus.

About 12,000 people die from Chagas every year. It kills more people in Latin America than any other parasitic disease, including malaria."

#Parasitology #Immunology #PublicHealth #ChagasDisease
#Trypanosoma #Tcruzi

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/jan/16/the-silent-disease-chagas-is-a-killer-now-carriers-want-their-voices-heard

#Parasitology #preprint: new from Drew Etheridge lab (FA: N.Chasen
) looking at role of #myosins in #Tcruzi #endocytosis. Show MyoF+MyoC in complementary roles & also ID an essential new protein (MyAP) required for their targeting to the SPC🤩👍👏

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.17.517012v2