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UTEP Professor Igor C. Almeida, Ph.D., is leading an almost 30-year research project that aims to discover a better treatment, as well as a vaccine, for Chagas disease.

Research aims for new vaccine, treatment for Chagas disease

Alexia X. Nava Carmona, Reporter February 19, 2019

UTEP Professor Igor C. Almeida, Ph.D., is leading an almost 30-year research project that aims to discover a better treatment, as well as a vaccine, for Chagas disease. Chagas disease, named after the Brazilian physician Carlos Chagas, who discovered...

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Chagas, a parasitic disease that affects the heart, is present in West Texas.

Kissing bug carries deadly parasite

Julio Cesar Chavez, Staff Reporter September 28, 2015

A UTEP professor and two undergraduate students have published a study showing that Chagas Disease, a parasitic disease that affects the heart, is present in West Texas. The study, led by former UTEP undergraduates Munir Buhaya and Steven Galvan, along...

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