Contents

	Conferences
	Biology and ultrastructure of Trypanosoma cruzi
	Biochemistry and molecular biology of Trypanosoma cruzi
	Characterization of Trypanosoma cruzi
	Trypanosoma Cruzi-Vector-Vertebrate host interactions
	Progress in immunopathology of chagas disease
	Progress in etiological diagnosis of chagasic infection
	Clinical Evolution and Morbi-mortality of chagas disease
	Progress in treatment of chagas disease
	Epidemiology and dynamics of vectorial transmission of Chagas Disease
	Control of transmission of Chagasic Infection
	Recommendations from a Satellite Meeting

Conferences

• Chagas Disease, from Discovery to Control - and Beyond: History, Myths and Lessons to Take Home
  - Carlos M Morel
  
  
  
• A Short Review on the Morphology of Trypanosoma cruzi: from 1909 to 1999
  - Wanderley de Souza
  
  
  
• Relevant Glycoconjugates on the Surface of Trypanosoma cruzi
  - Walter Colli, Maria Júlia Manso Alves
  
  
  
• A Role for Extracellular Amastigotes in the Immunopathology of Chagas Disease
  - Julio Scharfstein, Alexandre Morrot
  
  
  
• The Population Structure of Trypanosoma cruzi: Expanded Analysis of 54 Strains Using Eight Polymorphic CA-repeat Microsatellites
  - Riva P Oliveira, Anna Izabel R Melo, Andréa M Macedo, Egler Chiari, Sérgio DJ Pena
  
  
  
• Immunopathology of Chagas Disease
  - Zilton A Andrade
  
  
  
• Evolution of the Clinical and Epidemiological Knowledge about Chagas Disease 90 Years After its Discovery
  - Aluízio Prata
  
  
  
• Evolução dos Conhecimentos sobre Vetores da Doença de Chagas 90 Anos após sua Descoberta
  - Herman Lent
  
  
  
• Prevention of Transfusional Trypanosoma cruzi Infection in Latin America
  - Gabriel A Schmunis
  
  
  
• The Evolution of Chagas Disease (American Trypanosomiasis) Control after 90 Years since Carlos Chagas Discovery
  - JCP Dias, CJ Schofield
  
  
  
• The Noble Enigma: Chagas' Nominations for the  Nobel Prize
  - Marilia Coutinho, Olival Freire Jr., João Carlos Pinto Dias
  
  
  

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Biology and ultrastructure of Trypanosoma cruzi

• Biology and Ultra-structure of Trypanosoma cruzi: a 90-years Old Challenge for Scientists
  - Tania C de Araújo-Jorge
  
  
  
• Features of Host Cell Invasion by Different Infective Forms of Trypanosoma cruzi
  - Renato A Mortara, Daniela O Procópio, Helena C Barros, Newton V Verbisck, Walter K Andreoli, Ricardo BS Silva, Solange da Silva
  
  
  
• The Reservosome of Trypanosoma cruzi Epimastigotes: an Organelle of the Endocytic Pathway with a Role on Metacyclogenesis
  - Maurilio José Soares
  
  
  
• Internalization of Components of the Host Cell Plasma Membrane During Infection by Trypanosoma cruzi
  - TMU Carvalho, W De Souza, ES Coimbra
  
  
  
• Trypanosoma cruzi-cardiomyocytes: New Contributions Regarding a Better Understanding of this Interaction
  - Maria de Nazareth Leal de Meirelles, Mirian Claudia S Pereira, Robert H Singer, Maria de Nazaré C Soeiro, Luciana R Garzoni,Dayse T Silva, Helene S Barbosa, Tania C Araujo-Jorge, Masako O Masuda, Marcia AM Capella, Anibal Gil Lopes, Alane B Vermelho
  
  
  
• Why Studies on Invasion of Host Cell by Trypanosoma cruzi Using Stablished Cell Lines or Primary Cell Cultures Give Conflicting Results?
  - Helene S Barbosa
  
  
  

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Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Trypanosoma cruzi

• Recent Issues of the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Trypanosoma cruzi
  - Luiz R Travassos, Erney P Camargo
  
  
  
• Epidemiology, Biochemistry and Evolution of Trypanosoma cruzi Lineages Based on Ribosomal RNA Sequences
  - Bianca Zingales, Beatriz S Stolf, Ricardo P Souto, Octavio Fernandes, Marcelo RS Briones
  
  
  
• Differential Gene Expression during Trypanosoma cruzi Metacyclogenesis
  - Marco Aurelio Krieger, Andrea Rodrigues Ávila, Sueli Fumie Yamada Ogatta, Claire Plazanet-Menut, Samuel Goldenberg
  
  
  
• Organization and Expression of a Multigene Family Encoding the Surface Glycoproteins of Trypanosoma cruzi Metacyclic Trypomastigotes Involved in the Cell Invasion
  - Mirian S Carmo, Jorge E Araya, Marcel I Ramirez, Silvia Boscardin, Maria I Cano, Renata P Baida, Rita C Ruiz, Marcia R Santos, Miguel A Chiurillo, José L Ramirez, Nobuko Yoshida, José Franco da Silveira
  
  
  
• Trypanosoma cruzi Mucins: Potential Functions of a Complex Structure
  - Igor C Almeida, Ricardo Gazzinelli, Michael AJ Ferguson, Luiz R Travassos
  

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Characterization of trypanosoma cruzi

• Characterization of Trypanosoma cruzi
  - Silvane Maria Fonseca Murta, Alvaro José Romanha
  
  
  
• Taxonomy of Trypanosoma cruzi: a Commentary on Characterization and Nomenclature
  - Hooman Momen
  
  
  
• Trypanosoma cruzi: Clonal Structure of Parasite Strains and the Importance of Principal Clones
  - Sonia G Andrade
  
  
  
• Genetic Diversity and Genetic Exchange in Trypanosoma cruzi: Dual Drug-resistant "Progeny" from Episomal Transformants
  - JR Stothard, IA Frame, MA Miles
  
  
  
• Populational Heterogeneity of Brazilian Trypanosoma cruzi Isolates Revealed by the Mini-exon and Ribosomal Spacers
  - O Fernandes, SS Santos, ACV Junqueira, AM Jansen, E Cupolillo, DA Campbell, B Zingales, JR Coura
  
  
  
• Reflections on the Population Dynamics of Trypanosoma cruzi: Heterogeneity Versus Plasticity
  - Raquel S Pacheco, Célia MM Brito
  
  
  
• The Sylvatic Cycle of Trypanosoma cruzi: a Still Unsolved Puzzle
  - Ana Maria Jansen, Ana Paula Santos de Pinho, Cristiane Varella Lisboa, Elisa Cupolillo, Regina Helena Mangia, Octavio Fernandes
  
  
  
• Morphobiological Characterization of Trypanosoma cruzi Chagas, 1909 and its Distinction from other Trypanosomes
  - Maria Auxiliadora de Sousa
  
  
  

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Trypanosoma cruzi_Vector_vertebrate host interactions

• Trypanosoma cruzi _ Vector-vertebrate Hosts Interactions
  - Eloi S Garcia
  
  
  
• Biological Factors Involving Trypanosoma cruzi Life Cycle in the Invertebrate Vector, Rhodnius prolixus - ES Garcia, MS Gonzalez, P Azambuja
  
  
  
• Some Morphological and Molecular Aspects of the Life Cycle of Trypansoma cruzi in the Insect Vector
  - Rodrigo Zeledón
  
  
  
• Immunity in Rhodnius prolixus: Trypanosomatid-vector Interactions
  - P Azambuja, D Feder, CB Mello, SAO Gomes, ES Garcia
  
  
  
• Triatominae as a Model of Morphological Plasticity under Ecological Pressure
  - JP Dujardin, P Panzera, CJ Schofield
  
  
  
• Mitochondrial DNA variation of Triatoma infestans populations and its implication on the specific status of T. melanosoma
  - Fernando A Monteiro, Ruben Pérez, Francisco Panzera, Jean-Pierre Dujardin, Cleber Galvão,Dayse Rocha, Francois Noireau, Chris Schofield, Charles B Beard
  
  
  
• The Synanthropic Process of Chagas Disease Vectors in Brazil, with Special Attention to Triatoma brasiliensis Neiva, 1911 (Hemiptera, Reduviidae, Triatominae) Population, Genetical, Ecological, and Epidemiological Aspects
  - Jane Costa
  
  
  
• Trypanosoma cruzi Interaction with its Vectors and Vertebrate Hosts
  - Mario Steindel
  
  
  

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Progress in immunopathology of Chagas disease

• Immunopathology of Chagas Disease - A Historical Overview
  - WL Tafuri
  
  
  
• Integration of Trypanosoma cruzi kDNA Minicircle Sequence in the Host Genome May Be Associated with Autoimmune Serum Factors in Chagas Disease Patients
  - Augusto Simões-Barbosa, Ana Maria Barros, Nadjar Nitz, Enrique R Argañaraz, Antonio RL Teixeira
  
  
  
• The Role of the Immune Response on the Development of Severe Clinical Forms of Human Chagas Disease
  - Rodrigo Corrêa-Oliveira, Juliana de Assis Silva Gomes, Elenice Moreira Lemos, Glenda Meira Cardoso, Débora D'Ávila Reis, Sheila Adad, Eduardo Crema, Olindo Assis Martins-Filho, Manoel Otávio Rocha Costa, Giovanni Gazzinelli, Lílian Maria Garcia Bahia-Oliveira
  
  
  
• Immunopathology of Cardiomyopathy in the Experimental Chagas Disease
  - Milena BP Soares, Ricardo Ribeiro dos Santos
  
  
  
• Human Chronic Chagasic Cardiopathy: Participation of Parasite Antigens, Subsets of Lymphocytes, Cytokines and Microvascular Abnormalities
  - Maria de Lourdes Higuchi
  
  
  
• Mouse as a Model for Chagas Disease: Does Mouse Represent a Good Model for Chagas Disease?
  - Sylvio Celso Gonçalves da Costa
  
  
  
• Immunosuppressive Drugs as a Tool to Explore Immunopathology in Experimental Chagas Disease
  - KS Calabrese
  
  
  
• Evolution on the Immunopathology of Chagas Disease
  - Moysés Sadigursky
  
  
  
• The Role of Tissue-infiltrating T cells in Immunopathology of Chagas Disease
  - George A DosReis
  
  
  

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Progress in etiological diagnosis of chagasic infection

• Development in the Etiologic Diagnosis of Chagas Disease
  - Mario E Camargo
  
  
  
• Evolution of Knowledge on the Etiological Diagnosis of Chagasic Infection
  - Alejandro O Luquetti
  
  
  
• Serological Diagnosis of Chagas Disease with Purified and Defined Trypanosoma cruzi Antigens
  - Eufrosina Setsu Umezawa, José Franco da Silveira
  
  
  
• Xenodiagnosis
  - Hugo Schenone
  
  
  
• Changes in the Hemoculture Methodology Improve the Test Positivity
  - Zélia M Profeta Luz
  
  
  
• Chagas Disease Diagnosis Using Polymerase Chain Reaction, Hemoculture and Serologic Methods
  - Egler Chiari
  
  
  
• Diagnosis of Trypanosoma cruzi Chronic Infections in Humans: Usefulness of the Complement Regulatory Protein Antigens and Lytic Antibodies in the Control of Cure
  - AU Krettli
  
  
  
• Polymerase Chain Reaction Detection: New Insights into the Diagnosis of Chronic Chagas Disease
  - C Britto, MA Cardoso, P Marques, O Fernandes, CM Morel
  
  
  
• Screening and Confirmation in Chagas Disease Serology -  A Contribution
  - WMR Oelemann, MGM Teixeira, JM Peralta
  
  
  

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Clinical Evolution and Morbi-mortality of Chagas disease

• Clinical Evolution and Morbi-mortality in Chagas Disease
  - Edmundo Chapadeiro
  
  
  
• Indeterminate Form of Chagas Disease
  - Vanize Macêdo
  
  
  
• Risk of Death Due to Chronic Chagasic Cardiopathy
  - Enrique C Manzullo, Roberto Chuit
  
  
  
• Sudden Death in Patients with Chagas Disease
  - Edison Reis Lopes
  
  
  
• Chagas Disease and Immunosuppression
  - Marcelo Simão Ferreira
  
  
  
• Longitudinal Radiological Study of the Esophagus in Chagas Disease
  - Cleudson Castro
  
  
  

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Progress in treatment of Chagas disease

• Criteria of Chagas Disease Cure
  - J Romeu Cançado
  
  
  
• Etiological Treatment for Infection by Trypanosoma cruzi
  - Vicente Amato Neto
  
  
  
• Clinical Treatment of the Digestive Form of Chagas Disease
  - Ulysses G Meneghelli
  
  
  
• Chagas Disease Surgery
  - Alcino Lázaro da Silva
  
  
  
• Parasitological Cure of Chagas Disease: Is it Possible? Is it Relevant?
  - Julio A Urbina
  
  
  
• Chagas Disease: Criteria of Cure and Prognosis
  - Eliane Dias Gontijo, Lúcia MC Galvão, Silvana Eloi-Santos
  
  
  
• Treatment of Trypanosoma cruzi Infection in the Undetermined Phase. Experience and Current Guidelines of Treatment in Argentina
  - Sergio Sosa Estani, Elsa Leonor Segura 
  
  
  

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Epidemiology and dynamics of vectorial transmission of chagas disease

• Climatic Factors Related to Chagas Disease Transmission
  - Rodolfo U Carcavallo
  
  
  
• Genetic Variability in Brazilian Triatomines and the Risk of Domiciliation
  - EC Borges, HHR Pires, SE Barbosa, CMS Nunes, MH Pereira, AJ Romanha, L Diotaiuti 
  
  
  
• The Process of Domestication in Triatominae
  - CJ Schofield, Lileia Diotaiuti, JP Dujardin
  
  
  
• Chagas Disease: from Bush to Huts and Houses. Is it the Case of the Brazilian Amazon?
  - José Rodrigues Coura, Angela Cristina Verissimo Junqueira, Marcio Neves Boia, Octavio Fernandes
  
  
  
• Epidemiology and Dinamics of the Vectorial Transmission of Chagas Disease
  - Italo A Sherlock
  
  
  
• Epidemiology of Chagas Disease in Ecuador. A Brief Review
  - H Marcelo Aguilar V, Fernando Abad-Franch, José Racines V, Aura Paucar C
  
  
  
• Considerations on the Epidemiology and Transmission of Chagas Disease in the Brazilian Amazon
  - Sebastião Aldo da Silva Valente, Vera da Costa Valente, Habib Fraiha Neto
  
  
  
• Potential for Domestication of Panstrongylus geniculatus (Latreille, 1811) (Liemiptera, Reduviidae, Triatominae) in the Municipality of Muaná, Marajó Island, State of Pará, Brazil
  - Vera da Costa Valente
  
  
  

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Control of transmission of chagasic infection

• Progress Towards Interruption of Transmission of Chagas Disease
  - Alvaro Moncayo
  
  
  
• Elimination of Vector-borne Transmission of Chagas Disease
  - AC Silveira, MC Vinhaes
  
  
  
• Interruption of Chagas Disease Transmission in the Andean Countries: Colombia
  - Felipe Guhl, Gustavo A Vallejo
  
  
  
• Elimination of the Vectorial Transmission of Chagas Disease in Central American Countries: Honduras
  - Carlos Ponce
  
  
  
• Chagas Infection Transmission Control: Situation of Transfusional Transmission in Brazil and other Countries of Latin America
  - Helio Moraes-Souza
  
  
  
• Differences of Susceptibility of Five Triatomine Species to Pyrethroid Insecticides _ Implications for Chagas Disease Vector Control
  - Alfredo Martins de Oliveira Filho
  
  
  

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