Author: Donna Huber

Study reveals key cause of treatment failure in Chagas disease

[caption id="attachment_4579" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Photo by Peter Frey[/caption] Researchers at the University of Georgia have discovered that dormancy of the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi prevents effective drug treatment for Chagas disease, which kills more than 50,000 people each year in Central and South America and is a growing...