Sebastião Aldo da Silva Valente

TL;DR: The status of Chagas disease in Amazonian Brazil, including known reservoirs and vectors, and the genetic diversity of T. cruzi is reviewed, indicating that the disease may be emerging as a wider public health problem in the region.

TL;DR: The evidence is presented that resulted in the Brazilian Consensus on Chagas Disease, which was to review and standardize strategies for diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and control of the disease in the country, based on the available scientific evidence.

TL;DR: A doenca de Chagas, uma condicao cronica negligenciada com elevada carga de morbimortalidade e impacto dos pontos de vista psicologico, social e economic, representa um importante problema de saude publica no Brasil, com diferentes cenarios regionais as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that silvatic TcI populations are extraordinarily genetically diverse, show spatial structuring on a continental scale, and have undergone recent biogeographic expansion into the southern United States of America.

TL;DR: Two hundred and thirty-three cases of the acute phase of Chagas disease, from Para, Amapa and Maranhao, were observed between 1988 and 2005, and 13 patients died: ten due to cardiovascular involvement, two due to digestive complications and one due to indeterminate causes.