Large urban outbreak of orally acquired acute chagas disease at a school in Caracas, Venezuela

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 201, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1308-1315

  De Noya, Belkisyolé Alarcón ^a   Díaz Bello, Zoraida ^a   Colmenares, Cecilia ^a   Ruiz Guevara, Raiza ^a   Mauriello, Luciano ^a   Zavala Jaspe, Reinaldo ^a   Suarez, José Antonio ^a   Abate, Teresa ^a   Naranjo, Laura ^a   Paiva, Manuel ^b   Rivas, Lavinia ^c   Castro, Julio ^a   Márques, Juan ^a   Mendoza, Iván ^a   Acquatella, Harry ^d   Torres, Jaime ^a   Noya, Oscar ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

^b Dirección de Epidemiología   (Venezuela)

^c Ministerio del Poder Popular para la Salud   (Venezuela)

^d Centro Medico Docente La Trinidad   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARASITEMIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; VENEZUELA; ADOLESCENT; AGE; BEVERAGE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; EPIDEMIC; FOOD POISONING; GUAVA; HEMAGGLUTINATION TEST; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL; STATISTICAL MODEL; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; BEVERAGES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHILD; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOODBORNE DISEASES; HEMAGGLUTINATION TESTS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSIDIUM; RISK FACTORS; SCHOOLS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; URBAN POPULATION; VENEZUELA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950946226     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/651608     Document Type: Article

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