Between a bug and a hard place: Trypanosoma cruzi genetic diversity and the clinical outcomes of Chagas disease

LA Messenger, MA Miles, C Bern - Expert review of anti-infective …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Over the last 30 years, concomitant with successful transnational disease control programs
across Latin America, Chagas disease has expanded from a neglected, endemic parasitic …

Clinical and pharmacological profile of benznidazole for treatment of Chagas disease

J Müller Kratz, F Garcia Bournissen… - Expert Review of …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Chagas disease (CD) is one of the most neglected public health problems in
the Americas, where< 1% of the estimated 6 million people with the infection have been …

Localized cardiac small molecule trajectories and persistent chemical sequelae in experimental Chagas disease

Z Liu, R Ulrich vonBargen, AL Kendricks… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Post-infectious conditions present major health burdens but remain poorly understood. In
Chagas disease (CD), caused by Trypanosoma cruzi parasites, antiparasitic agents that …

Nitroheterocyclic compounds are more efficacious than CYP51 inhibitors against Trypanosoma cruzi: implications for Chagas disease drug discovery and …

CB Moraes, MA Giardini, H Kim, CH Franco… - Scientific reports, 2014 - nature.com
Advocacy for better drugs and access to treatment has boosted the interest in drug discovery
and development for Chagas disease, a chronic infection caused by the genetically …

Translational challenges of animal models in Chagas disease drug development: a review

E Chatelain, N Konar - Drug design, development and therapy, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Chagas disease, or American trypanosomiasis, caused by Trypanosoma cruzi parasite
infection is endemic in Latin America and presents an increasing clinical challenge due to …

New, Combined, and Reduced Dosing Treatment Protocols Cure Trypanosoma cruzi Infection in Mice

JM Bustamante, JM Craft, BD Crowe… - The Journal of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
The development of treatment protocols with reduced toxicity and equivalent or improved
efficacy for Trypanosoma cruzi infection is a priority. We tested the effectiveness of …

Challenges in Chagas disease drug development

AF Francisco, S Jayawardhana, F Olmo, MD Lewis… - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
The protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi causes Chagas disease, an important public
health problem throughout Latin America. Current therapeutic options are characterised by …

Drug strategies targeting CYP51 in neglected tropical diseases

JY Choi, LM Podust, WR Roush - Chemical Reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
CYP51 is considered one of the most ancient P450 protein families. 1 It is perhaps the only
P450 protein family whose members are spread across all biological kingdoms, although it …

The repositioned drugs disulfiram/diethyldithiocarbamate combined to benznidazole: Searching for Chagas disease selective therapy, preventing toxicity and drug …

J Almeida-Silva, DS Menezes… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Chagas disease (CD) affects at least 6 million people in 21 South American countries
besides several thousand in other nations all over the world. It is estimated that at least …

Reactivation of Chagas disease: implications for global health

CJ Perez, AJ Lymbery, RCA Thompson - Trends in parasitology, 2015 - cell.com
Reactivation of Chagas Disease (CD) is a global public health issue. Reactivation of
disease can affect the management of CD and its clinical outcome, adding pressure to …