FIRST REPORT OF ACUTE CHAGAS DISEASE BY VECTOR TRANSMISSION IN RIO DE JANEIRO STATE, BRAZIL

FIRST REPORT OF ACUTE CHAGAS DISEASE BY VECTOR TRANSMISSION IN RIO DE JANEIRO STATE, BRAZIL

SUMMARY Chagas disease (CD) is an endemic anthropozoonosis from Latin America of which the main means of transmission is the contact of skin lesions or mucosa with the feces of triatomine bugs infected by Trypanosoma cruzi. In this article, we describe the first acute CD case acquired by vector tran...

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Main Authors: Luiz Henrique Conde SANGENIS, Andréa Silvestre DE SOUSA, Gilberto Marcelo SPERANDIO DA SILVA, Sérgio Salles XAVIER, Carolina Romero Cardoso MACHADO, Patrícia BRASIL, Liane DE CASTRO, Sidnei DA SILVA, Ingebourg GEORG, Roberto Magalhães SARAIVA, Pedro Emmanuel Alvarenga Americano do BRASIL, Alejandro Marcel HASSLOCHER-MORENO
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2015-08-01
Series:Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
Subjects:
Chagas disease
Transmission
Triatoma vitticeps
Rio de Janeiro
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