Electrocardiographic Findings in Mexican Chagasic Subjects Living in High and Low Endemic Regions of Trypanosoma cruzi Infection

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 605-610

  Sosa Jurado, Francisca ^b   Mazariego Aranda, Miguel ^c   Hernández Becerril, Nidia ^a   Garza Murillo, Verónica ^a   Cárdenas, Manuel ^a   Reyes, Pedro A ^a   Hirayama, Kenji ^d   Monteón, Victor M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CARDIOLOGÍA IGNACIO CHÁVEZ   (Mexico)

^b Hosp Especialidades Ctro Medico N   (Mexico)

^c Facultad de Ciencias Químicas   (Mexico)

^d NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chagas disease; Electrocardiogram alterations; Polymerase chain reaction; Seroprevalence; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALTITUDE; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECG ABNORMALITY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC ELEVATION; HEART RIGHT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART VENTRICLE EXTRASYSTOLE; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARASITE CULTIVATION; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROPREVALENCE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; ANIMAL; CHILD; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RURAL POPULATION;

TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; CHAGAS CARDIOMYOPATHY; CHILD; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; RURAL POPULATION; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0142259229     PISSN: 00740276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762003000500004     Document Type: Article

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