First description of Trypanosoma cruzi human infection in Esmeraldas province, Ecuador

Chagas disease was described in Ecuador in 1930 in the province of Guayas and thereafter in various provinces. Triatomine were reported in the province of Esmeraldas but no human infection has been described. Here we report the first evidence that the disease does exist in the province of Esmeraldas...

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Autores principales: Guevara, Ángel, Moreira, Juan, Criollo, Hipatia, Vivero, Sandra, Racines, Marcia, Cevallos, Varsovia, Prandi, Rosanna, Caicedo, Cynthia, Robinzon, Francisco, Anselmi, Mariella
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4131061/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25095872
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-7-358
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author Guevara, Ángel
Moreira, Juan
Criollo, Hipatia
Vivero, Sandra
Racines, Marcia
Cevallos, Varsovia
Prandi, Rosanna
Caicedo, Cynthia
Robinzon, Francisco
Anselmi, Mariella
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Moreira, Juan
Criollo, Hipatia
Vivero, Sandra
Racines, Marcia
Cevallos, Varsovia
Prandi, Rosanna
Caicedo, Cynthia
Robinzon, Francisco
Anselmi, Mariella
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description Chagas disease was described in Ecuador in 1930 in the province of Guayas and thereafter in various provinces. Triatomine were reported in the province of Esmeraldas but no human infection has been described. Here we report the first evidence that the disease does exist in the province of Esmeraldas. In indigenous Awá communities located in the northwest jungle of the Esmeraldas province, 144 individuals were tested using ELISA and PCR for T.cruzi of which 5 (3.47%) were positive. Twenty eight triatomine were collected, 27 were Triatoma dispar and 1 Pastrongylus rufotuberculatus, T.cruzi was detected in 11 (42.3%) of 26 insects.
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spelling pubmed-41310612014-08-15 First description of Trypanosoma cruzi human infection in Esmeraldas province, Ecuador Guevara, Ángel Moreira, Juan Criollo, Hipatia Vivero, Sandra Racines, Marcia Cevallos, Varsovia Prandi, Rosanna Caicedo, Cynthia Robinzon, Francisco Anselmi, Mariella Parasit Vectors Letter to the Editor Chagas disease was described in Ecuador in 1930 in the province of Guayas and thereafter in various provinces. Triatomine were reported in the province of Esmeraldas but no human infection has been described. Here we report the first evidence that the disease does exist in the province of Esmeraldas. In indigenous Awá communities located in the northwest jungle of the Esmeraldas province, 144 individuals were tested using ELISA and PCR for T.cruzi of which 5 (3.47%) were positive. Twenty eight triatomine were collected, 27 were Triatoma dispar and 1 Pastrongylus rufotuberculatus, T.cruzi was detected in 11 (42.3%) of 26 insects. BioMed Central 2014-08-06 /pmc/articles/PMC4131061/ /pubmed/25095872 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-7-358 Text en © Guevara et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2014 This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Guevara, Ángel
Moreira, Juan
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Vivero, Sandra
Racines, Marcia
Cevallos, Varsovia
Prandi, Rosanna
Caicedo, Cynthia
Robinzon, Francisco
Anselmi, Mariella
First description of Trypanosoma cruzi human infection in Esmeraldas province, Ecuador
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title_fullStr First description of Trypanosoma cruzi human infection in Esmeraldas province, Ecuador
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title_short First description of Trypanosoma cruzi human infection in Esmeraldas province, Ecuador
title_sort first description of trypanosoma cruzi human infection in esmeraldas province, ecuador
topic Letter to the Editor
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4131061/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25095872
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-7-358
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