Update on Chagas disease in Venezuela: a review

The present article reviews the status of Chagas disease in Venezuela based on the detection of Trypanosoma cruzi infections both in referred patients with clinical presumptive diagnosis (1988-2002) and in individuals sampled from rural localities representative of the different geographical regions...

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Main Authors: Néstor Añez, Gladys Crisante, Agustina Rojas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde 2004-12-01
Series:Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz.
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0074-02762004000800001