Emerging Chagas disease in Amazonian Brazil

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 171-176

  Coura, José Rodrigues ^a   Junqueira, Angela C V ^a   Fernandes, Octavio ^a   Valente, Sebastiao A S ^b   Miles, Michael A ^c  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO EVANDRO CHAGAS   (Brazil)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAZIL; CHAGAS DISEASE; DISEASE CARRIER; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRIATOMINAE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; BRAZIL; CHAGAS DISEASE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; RISK FACTORS; TRIATOMINAE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

MAMMALIA; PROTOZOA; TRIATOMINAE; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0036543199     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1471-4922(01)02200-0     Document Type: Review

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