Chagas disease in Barcelona, Spain

Acta Tropica

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 86-87

  Rodriguez Morales, Alfonso J ^a,b   Silvestre, Julio ^c   Cazorla Perfetti, Dalmiro J ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Venezuela)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

^c LINCOLN MEDICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^d Parasitology and Tropical Medicine (LEPAMET)   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Chagas; Epidemiology; Migration

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL AMERICA; CHAGAS DISEASE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; LETTER; MIGRATION; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; SEROPREVALENCE; SOUTH AMERICA; SPAIN; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; ZOONOSIS;

CHAGAS DISEASE; HUMANS; SPAIN;

EID: 68349104319     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2009.04.014     Document Type: Letter

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