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

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 transmission...

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Autores principales: SANGENIS, Luiz Henrique Conde, DE SOUSA, Andréa Silvestre, SPERANDIO DA SILVA, Gilberto Marcelo, XAVIER, Sérgio Salles, MACHADO, Carolina Romero Cardoso, BRASIL, Patrícia, DE CASTRO, Liane, DA SILVA, Sidnei, GEORG, Ingebourg, SARAIVA, Roberto Magalhães, do BRASIL, Pedro Emmanuel Alvarenga Americano, HASSLOCHER-MORENO, Alejandro Marcel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Instituto de Medicina Tropical 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4616926/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26422165
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0036-46652015000400017