Rajendranath Ramasawmy et al.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 43(3), 305-311 (2006-06-29)
Only a subset of individuals infected with Trypanosoma cruzi develop chronic Chagas cardiomyopathy (CCC). Familial aggregation of CCC in areas of endemicity indicates that susceptibility may be genetic, which may be a plausible explanation for why only one-third of T.