Chagas Disease Home>Conditions_and_Diseases>Infectious_Diseases>Parasitic>Chagas Disease     Web Pages Chagas Disease Information from the World Health Organization. Trypanosoma cruzi (Chagas' Disease) Images of the causative parasite and brief information about the disease. Division of Parasitic Diseases - Chagas Disease Detailed information from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. The Kiss of Death: Chagas' Disease in the Americas A study of the disease by Dr. Joseph Bastien. Chagas' Disease (American Trypanosomiasis) Brief information about Chagas' and other diseases caused by parasites of the Trypanosomatidae family (leishmaniasis and African sleeping sickness). Chagas’ Disease Research Program Debasish Chattopadhyay's Structural Biology Laboratory is studying the DHFR and PTR enzymes of Trypanosoma cruzi for structure-based design of specific inhibitors of these enzymes. For this purpose, they have determined the crystal structure of substrate and inhibitor complexes of T. cruzi PTR at high resolution. Mitochondrial DNA Sequence Variation among Triatomine Vectors of Chagas' Disease Full text article by Daniel E Lyman, Fernando A. Monteiro, Ananias A. Escalante, Celia Cordon-Rosales, Dawn M. Wesson, Jean-Pierre Dujardin, and Charles B. Beard.