A note from the editors: Chagas disease – neglected in Europe?

Chagas: a neglected tropical disease.

Chagas disease which is caused by the haemoflagellate Trypanosoma cruzi is classically transmitted by Reduviid bugs of the genera Triatoma and Rhodnius and occurs when the bugs bite humans and pass infective trypomastigotes in their stools which enter the blood through puncture wound in the skin (1). Chagas disease has been recognized as a neglected tropical disease with between eight and nine ...

A Note From the Editors

Note from the editors

The hidden Chagas disease burden in Europe.

Chagas disease in non-endemic countries that is, in countries outside Latin America with exceptional or no vectorial transmission such as in Europe has come to light since the beginning of 2000. The emergence of the disease in those countries was mainly linked to population mobility, notably migration. During the last century, Chagas disease cases were detected in nonendemic countries in North ...

Editors note

EDITOR’S NOTE Geopersia is published biannually by the College of Science, University of Tehran, Iran. The College of Science published “Journal of Science”, which covered all fields of basic science, from 1968 to 2010. It was then decided that the College’s journals should be more specialized, and hence publication of Geopersia was launched. Geopersia aims to publish peer-reviewed original...