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2009
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- The reception by French physicians of Chagas’discovery of Trypanosoma cruzi and American trypanosomiasis(1909-1925) Gabriel Gachelin Annick Opinel Historia EmileBrumpt Félix Mesnil Trypanosoma cruzi Carlos Chagas disease Americantrypanosomiasis As soon as they were published earlyin 1909, Chagas’s articles onTrypanosoma cruzi and Americantrypanosomiasis became the topic ofdiscussions in France. The descriptionof T. cruzi and Chagas disease was addedto parasitology textbooks as early as1912, and elicited active research,particularly on the part of Frenchparasitologist Emile Brumpt. Hecontributed towards eluciding thelifecycle of T. cruzi and the differentways it could infect humans.Laboratory research on T. cruzi wasinterrupted by First World War andwas not resumed afterwards on thesame scale, although interest in theepidemiology of Chagas diseasecontinued. 2009 artículo científico 0104-5970 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=386138047003 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=3861 História, Ciências, Saúde - Manguinhos application/pdf Fundação Oswaldo Cruz História, Ciências, Saúde - Manguinhos (Brasil) Vol.16