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chagas' disease
CIDE DICTIONARY
chagas' disease, n. [Carlos Chagas , a physician in Brazil, 1879-1934].
a form of trypanosomiasis caused by infection with Trypamosoma cruzi , found principally in South America. It is transmitted by certain species of reduviid bugs, and has natural reservoirs in dogs, armadillos, rodents and other domestic and wild mammals. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
chagas' disease, (also Chagas's disease) n. a kind of sleeping sickness caused by a protozoan transmitted by blood-sucking bugs.
Etymology
C. Chagas, Braz. physician d. 1934
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