Casas de fuego
Casas de fuego is a 1995
Silver Condor
Award for Best Film.
The film follows the life of
Argentine physician who began investigating the Chagas disease in 1926 and over the years became the principal researcher in the country.[1] Mazza produced the first scientific confirmation of the existence of Trypanosoma cruzi in Argentina in 1927, eventually leading to support from local and European medical schools and Argentine government policy makers.[2] In Argentina and other countries the disease is known as mal de Chagas-Mazza (Chagas
-Mazza disease).
References
- ^ "Enfermedad de Chagas – Mazza" (in Spanish). Asociación Lucha Contra el Mal de Chagas. Archived from the original on 16 September 2011. Retrieved 15 September 2011.
- ^ "Historia de la enfermedad de Chagas" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 4 December 2009.
External links
- Casas de fuego at IMDb
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