How Chagas Disease Is Treated
Acute-Phase Disease The only good opportunity for curing Chagas disease—that is, of completely eradicating the Trypanosoma cruzi (T. cruzi) parasite from the body—is if treatment can be started early in the course of the disease, during the acute phase. There was an error. Please try again. In any person diagnosed with acute T. cruzi infection, or if an infant is found to have a congenital infection, treatment should be given with antitrypanosomal drugs....