American trypanosomiasis

noun

: chagas disease

Chagas is also known as American trypanosomiasis because the bugs carry single-celled parasites called trypanosomes.—

Donald G. McNeil, Jr

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1910, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of American trypanosomiasis was in 1910

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American trypanosomiasis

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