CHAGA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Chaga mean? 

• CHAGA (noun)
  The noun CHAGA has 1 sense:

1. a Bantu language spoken by the Chaga in northern Tanzania

  Familiarity information: CHAGA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHAGA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga in northern Tanzania

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Chaga; Chagga; Kichaga

Hypernyms ("Chaga" is a kind of...):

Bantoid language; Bantu (a family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent)

 Context examples 

Chagas disease is caused by a parasite.

(Chagas Disease, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Trypanosoma cruzi is an intracellular protozoan parasite that causes Chagas disease.

(Chagas Disease Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

Levofuraltadone has been used to treat Trypanosoma cruzi infection in Chagas' disease.

(Levofuraltadone, NCI Thesaurus)

A team of scientists from the University of Granada (UGR) has broken new ground in Chagas disease research.

(Scientists identify how the exosomes of the parasite responsible for Chagas disease affect heart cells, University of Granada)

Chagas disease is one of the major health problems facing countries and states in the Amazon region, causing disability in infected people and more than 10,000 deaths per year.

(Açaí fruit can transmit Chagas disease, SciDev.Net)

Caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, Chagas disease is passed on through infected insects.

(Scientists identify how the exosomes of the parasite responsible for Chagas disease affect heart cells, University of Granada)

Another study confirms that the growth of Chagas disease in Pará, one of the country’s highest açaí juice-consuming states, is associated with the harvest season of the fruit between August and December.

(Açaí fruit can transmit Chagas disease, SciDev.Net)

Annually, some 300,000 new cases of Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis) are diagnosed worldwide, and it claims about 15,000 lives per year.

(Scientists identify how the exosomes of the parasite responsible for Chagas disease affect heart cells, University of Granada)

Artisan juice made with açaí, the fruit of a palm that grows in the rainforests of northern Brazil, could be a major source of infection with Trypanosoma cruzi, the parasite that causes Chagas disease.

(Açaí fruit can transmit Chagas disease, SciDev.Net)

The team’s findings have succeeded in clarifying the effect of the exovesicles released by Trypanosoma cruzi, thus contributing to identifying the mechanism that could explain the clinical manifestations of Chagas disease, as well as possible therapeutic targets.

(Scientists identify how the exosomes of the parasite responsible for Chagas disease affect heart cells, University of Granada)