Kissing bugs and Chagas' disease

Infections in Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 172-175

  Goddard, Jerome ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Bureau of Environmental Health   (United States)

Author keywords

Chagas' disease; Nifurtimox; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CHAGAS DISEASE; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; VACCINATION;

EID: 0033043176     PISSN: 07496524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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