Analysis of an acute Chagas disease outbreak in the Brazilian Amazon: human cases, triatomines, reservoir mammals and parasites

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 291-297

  Valente, Sebastião Aldo da Silva ^a   da Costa Valente, Vera ^a   das Neves Pinto, Ana Yecê ^a   de Jesus Barbosa César, Maria ^b   dos Santos, Marivaldo Picanço ^b   Miranda, Clóvis Omar Sá ^b   Cuervo, Patrícia ^c   Fernandes, Octavio ^c  

^a INSTITUTO EVANDRO CHAGAS   (Brazil)

^b Superintendência de Vigilância em Saúde Do Estado Do Amapá SVS AP   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazon; Brazil; Chagas disease; Oral transmission; Outbreak; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

BENZNIDAZOLE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; NIFURTIMOX;

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CHAGAS DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; FOLLOW UP; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; PANSTRONGYLUS; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; PARASITEMIA; RHODNIUS; TRIATOMINAE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BRAZIL; CHAGAS DISEASE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; TIME FACTORS; TRIATOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

MAMMALIA; PANSTRONGYLUS GENICULATUS; RHODNIUS PICTIPES; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 60749120857     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2008.10.047     Document Type: Article

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