Acute Chagas disease in El Salvador 2000-2012 - Need for surveillance and control

Several parasitological studies carried out in El Salvador between 2000-2012 showed a higher frequency of acute cases of Chagas disease than that in other Central American countries. There is an urgent need for improved Chagas disease surveillance and vector control programs in the provinces where a...

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Autores principales: Sasagawa, Emi, de Aguilar, Ana Vilma Guevara, de Ramírez, Marta Alicia Hernández, Chévez, José Eduardo Romero, Nakagawa, Jun, Cedillos, Rafael Antonio, Kita, Kiyoshi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde 2014
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Short Communications
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4015254/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24676660
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0074-0276140416
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author Sasagawa, Emi
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Chévez, José Eduardo Romero
Nakagawa, Jun
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description Several parasitological studies carried out in El Salvador between 2000-2012 showed a higher frequency of acute cases of Chagas disease than that in other Central American countries. There is an urgent need for improved Chagas disease surveillance and vector control programs in the provinces where acute Chagas disease occurs and throughout El Salvador as a whole.
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spelling pubmed-40152542014-05-21 Acute Chagas disease in El Salvador 2000-2012 - Need for surveillance and control Sasagawa, Emi de Aguilar, Ana Vilma Guevara de Ramírez, Marta Alicia Hernández Chévez, José Eduardo Romero Nakagawa, Jun Cedillos, Rafael Antonio Kita, Kiyoshi Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz Short Communications Several parasitological studies carried out in El Salvador between 2000-2012 showed a higher frequency of acute cases of Chagas disease than that in other Central American countries. There is an urgent need for improved Chagas disease surveillance and vector control programs in the provinces where acute Chagas disease occurs and throughout El Salvador as a whole. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde 2014-03-07 2014-04 /pmc/articles/PMC4015254/ /pubmed/24676660 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0074-0276140416 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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