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RODRIGUEZ-MORALES, Alfonso J. Nuevas perspectivas en el manejo terapéutico de la enfermedad de chagas. Rev. perú. med. exp. salud publica [online]. 2005, vol.22, n.2, pp.123-133. ISSN 1726-4634.

For the last couple of decades and particularly during the last five years, it has been reported a significant number of studies demonstrating the trypanocide activity of a large number of drugs, some of them news, others older; which jointly with the knowledge, also of recent date, about parasitary persistence of Trypanosoma cruzi at myocardial tissues, and others, in chronic phase of disease, are letting to do patent that exist a new paradigm, new approaches of the therapeutic management of Chagas’ disease patient. In current article main basis sustaining those therapeutic perspectives in American trypanosomiasis are reviewed.

Palabras clave : Chagas Disease; Therapeutics, Chagas Miocardiopathy; Trypanosoma cruzi; Review.

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