Endemic trypanosoma cruzi infection in Indian populations of the Gran Chaco territory of South America: Performance of diagnostic assays and epidemiological features

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 41-48

  Basombrio, M A ^a   Segovia, A ^b   Peralta Ramos, M ^c   Esteban, E ^d   Stumpf, R ^e   Jurgensen, P ^e   Winkler, M A ^e   Sayre, K ^f   Ferrer, J F ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SALTA   (Argentina)

^b Ministerio de Salud de la Nación   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL CENTRO DE LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^e ABBOTT DIAGNOSTICS   (United States)

^f Ortho McNeil Pharmaceutical Incorporated   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHILD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARAGUAY; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEROPREVALENCE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; VECTOR CONTROL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ARGENTINA; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIANS, SOUTH AMERICAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARAGUAY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

CHACO; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0032793331     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00034989958780     Document Type: Article

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