Acute Chagas' disease in western Venezuela: A clinical, seroparasitologic, and epidemiologic study

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 215-222

  Añez, Nestor ^a   Carrasco, Hugo ^b   Parada, Henry ^c   Crisante, Gladys ^a   Rojas, Agustina ^a   Gonzalez, Nestor ^a   Ramirez, Jose Luis ^d   Guevara, Palmira ^d   Rivero, Christian ^e   Borges, Rafael ^e   Scorza, Jose Vicente ^e  

^a FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS   (Venezuela)

^b Hospital Universitario de Los Andes   (Venezuela)

^c Hospital Luis Razetti   (Venezuela)

^d FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS   (Venezuela)

^e UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGGLUTINATION TEST; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHILD; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FEVER; GIEMSA STAIN; HEADACHE; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYALGIA; SERODIAGNOSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; VENEZUELA;

EID: 17144463908     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.1999.60.215     Document Type: Article

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