Short report: Seroprevalence of Trypanosoma cruzi among Teenek Amerindian residents of the huasteca region in San Luis Potosi, Mexico

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 219-222

  Juarez Tobias, Soledad ^a   Vaughan, Gilberto ^b   Torres Montoya, Aida ^a   Escobar Gutierrez, Alejandro ^b,c  

^a Laboratorio Estatal de Salud Publica de San Luis Potosi   (Mexico)

^b Instituto Nacional de Diagnostico y Referencia Epidemiologicos   (Mexico)

^c NONE   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMERICAN INDIAN; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; INFECTION RATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEXICAN INDIAN; MEXICO; POPULATION RESEARCH; RISK FACTOR; SEROPREVALENCE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL; BLOOD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEX RATIO;

TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68549117113     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2009.81.219     Document Type: Article

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