Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of Texas hunters: a potentially high-risk population for exposure to the parasite that causes Chagas disease

BACKGROUND: Chagas disease is a parasitic infection transmitted to humans and mammals by the Triatominae insect. If untreated, Chagas disease can lead to heart failure and death. Previous publications highlighted the potential public health risk of disease transmission among hunters in the United St...

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Autores principales: Garcia, Melissa N, Murphy, Sarah K, Gross, Andrew, Wagner, Joel, Murray, Kristy O
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Short Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4393639/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25886035
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-015-0815-4
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description BACKGROUND: Chagas disease is a parasitic infection transmitted to humans and mammals by the Triatominae insect. If untreated, Chagas disease can lead to heart failure and death. Previous publications highlighted the potential public health risk of disease transmission among hunters in the United States. FINDINGS: We further investigated this population’s risk by administering a knowledge, attitudes, and practices questionnaire. Responses from hunters detailed the vector exposure and hunting practices unique to this population that might lead to their increased risk of disease transmission. CONCLUSIONS: Hunters should be aware of their potential risk for exposure to the insect that could be infected with the parasite that causes Chagas disease.
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spelling pubmed-43936392015-04-12 Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of Texas hunters: a potentially high-risk population for exposure to the parasite that causes Chagas disease Garcia, Melissa N Murphy, Sarah K Gross, Andrew Wagner, Joel Murray, Kristy O Parasit Vectors Short Report BACKGROUND: Chagas disease is a parasitic infection transmitted to humans and mammals by the Triatominae insect. If untreated, Chagas disease can lead to heart failure and death. Previous publications highlighted the potential public health risk of disease transmission among hunters in the United States. FINDINGS: We further investigated this population’s risk by administering a knowledge, attitudes, and practices questionnaire. Responses from hunters detailed the vector exposure and hunting practices unique to this population that might lead to their increased risk of disease transmission. CONCLUSIONS: Hunters should be aware of their potential risk for exposure to the insect that could be infected with the parasite that causes Chagas disease. BioMed Central 2015-04-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4393639/ /pubmed/25886035 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-015-0815-4 Text en © Garcia et al.; licensee BioMed Central. 2015 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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title Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of Texas hunters: a potentially high-risk population for exposure to the parasite that causes Chagas disease
title_full Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of Texas hunters: a potentially high-risk population for exposure to the parasite that causes Chagas disease
title_fullStr Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of Texas hunters: a potentially high-risk population for exposure to the parasite that causes Chagas disease
title_full_unstemmed Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of Texas hunters: a potentially high-risk population for exposure to the parasite that causes Chagas disease
title_short Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of Texas hunters: a potentially high-risk population for exposure to the parasite that causes Chagas disease
title_sort knowledge, attitudes, and practices of texas hunters: a potentially high-risk population for exposure to the parasite that causes chagas disease
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4393639/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-015-0815-4
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