After the successful control of vector and transfusion transmission of Chagas disease (CD) in Brazil and other endemic countries in Latin America, the current challenge is the control of congenital transmission of the disease. However, we still have a large contingent of people infected with Trypanosoma cruzi in the chronic form, estimated at around 3.7 million individuals in Brazil alone, with approximately 590,000 of them being women of childbearing age. Two treatment guidelines for CD were produced by the Pan […]