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Am. J. Trop. Med., s1-15(1), 1935, pp. 33-40
Copyright © 1935 by American Journal of Tropical Medicine

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The First Fatal Case of Chagas' Disease Observed on the Isthmus of Panama1

Elbert DeCoursey2
From the Board of Health Laboratory, Gorgas Hospital, Ancon, Canal Zone

1. There is presented a report of an autopsy upon a three-months-old, black male Panama native, the first fatal case of Chagas' disease that has been discovered on the Isthmus of Panama.
2. In this case Trypanosoma cruzi in their leishmania forms were numerous in the myocardium and sparse in the brain, and they caused a severe diffuse myocarditis and a widespread focal encephalitis.

Received October 24, 1934.
1 Read before the Medical Association of the Isthmian Canal Zone, July 17, 1934.


2 Captain, Medical Corps, United States Army.






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