Chagas disease has now gone global

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Tanowitz, Herbert B ^a,b   Weiss, Louis M ^a   Montgomery, Susan P ^c  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JACOBI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; HOUSING; HUMAN; IMMIGRATION; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; ETHNIC GROUP; MIGRATION; NOTE; PATHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CHAGAS DISEASE; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; ETHNIC GROUPS; HUMANS; PREVALENCE;

EID: 79955870805     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001136     Document Type: Article

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