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Title

The kiss of death : Chaga's disease in the Americas / Joseph William Bastien.

Author

Bastien, Joseph William, 1935-

Publication

Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, [1998], ©1998.

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Description

xxiv, 301 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Chagas' disease has become one of the major public-health problems in Latin America. Current estimates are that sixteen to eighteen million people are infected. It is caused by a flagellate protozoan whose vector is the triatomine or vinchuca bug, locally referred to as the "kissing bug" because of its tendency to lodge on victims' faces during sleep." "Although there is no cure for the chronic stage, the disease vectors can be controlled and possibly eliminated through improved hygiene and living conditions. No longer exclusive to Latin America, Chagas' disease is spreading to North America with the migration of infected bugs, hosts, transfusions, transplant organs, and changes in climate." "The Kiss of Death is a thorough study of Chagas' disease with analysis of research involving epidemiology, entomology, parasitology, pathology, and immunology."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Housing and health > Latin America
• Chagas Disease > epidemiology
• Public health surveillance > Latin America
• Chagas' disease > Latin America > Prevention
• Chagas' disease > Bolivia > Prevention
• Housing and health > Bolivia
• Chagas' disease > Epidemiology > Bolivia
• Latin America
• Chagas Disease > prevention & control
• Population Surveillance
• Chagas' disease > Social aspects > Bolivia
• Chagas' disease > Epidemiology > Latin America
• Public health surveillance > Bolivia
• Social Conditions
• Bolivia
• Housing
• Chagas' disease > Social aspects > Latin America

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-288) and index.

Contents

Ch. 1. Discovering Chagas' Disease -- Ch. 2. Early Andean Disease -- Ch. 3. Jampiris and Yachajs: Andean Ethnomedicine -- Ch. 4. The Crawling Epidemic: Epidemiology -- Ch. 5. Colico Miserere: Enlarged colon -- Ch. 6. Bertha: Mal de Corazon -- Ch. 7. Culture and Political Economy of Homes -- Ch. 8. Pachamama Snatched Her: Getting Involved -- Ch. 9. Sharing Ideas -- Ch. 10. Culture Context Model for Chagas' Control / Joseph Bastien and Oscar Velasco -- Ch. 11. Solutions -- App. 1. Trypanosoma cruzi -- App. 2. Strains of T. cruzi -- App. 3. Immunization against T. cruzi -- App. 4. Triatoma infestans -- App. 5. House Infestation in Bolivia -- App. 6. House Infestation in Latin America -- App. 7. Vector species of T. cruzi in the Americas -- App. 8. Hosts for T. cruzi -- App. 9. Acute Chagas' Disease -- App. 10. Chronic Heart Disease -- App. 11. Immune Response / Joseph Bastien and George Stewart -- App. 12. Diagnostic Tests -- App. 13. Chemotherapy -- App. 14. Baseline Studies in Chuquisaca.

ISBN

0874805597 (alk. paper)

LCCN

98018279

OCLC

• ocm38948299
• SCSB-5096958

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries