Trypanosoma cruzi genotyping supports a common source of infection in a school-related oral outbreak of acute Chagas disease in Venezuela

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 142, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 156-162

  Diaz Bello Z ^a   Thomas, M C ^b   Lopez M C ^b   Zavala Jaspe, R ^a   Noya, O ^a   De Noya, B Alarcón ^a   Abate, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

^b INSTITUTO DE PARASITOLOGÍA Y BIOMEDICINA LÓPEZ NEYRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acute Chagas disease outbreak; DTU genotypes; Oral transmission; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FLUID INTAKE; FRUIT JUICE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENOTYPE; GUAVA JUICE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE ISOLATION; PHYLOGENY; RAT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; VENEZUELA;

EID: 84890018949     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268813000757     Document Type: Article

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