Chagas Disease and Human Migration

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 553-555

  Guhl, Felipe ^a   Jaramillo, Carlos ^b   Vallejo, Gustavo A ^c   A Arroyo, Felipe Cárdenas ^a   Aufderheide, Arthur ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DEL TOLIMA   (Colombia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Human migration; Mummies; Palaeoparasitology; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

MARTES; PRIMATES; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

PROTOZOAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHILE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HISTORY; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIGRATION; PALEOPATHOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHILE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; MUMMIES; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0034221279     PISSN: 00740276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762000000400018     Document Type: Article

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