Autochthonous Transmission of Trypanosoma Cruzi in Southern California

Trypanosoma cruzi usually infects humans via triatomine insects in Latin America. Vector-borne transmission in the United States is exceedingly rare. We describe (1) the first case of probable autochthonous transmission reported in California in more than 30 years and (2) the first ever reported cas...

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Autores principales: Hernandez, Salvador, Flores, Carmen A., Viana, Gracia M., Sanchez, Daniel R., Traina, Mahmoud I., Meymandi, Sheba K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2016
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5170498/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28018928
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofw227
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author Hernandez, Salvador
Flores, Carmen A.
Viana, Gracia M.
Sanchez, Daniel R.
Traina, Mahmoud I.
Meymandi, Sheba K.
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description Trypanosoma cruzi usually infects humans via triatomine insects in Latin America. Vector-borne transmission in the United States is exceedingly rare. We describe (1) the first case of probable autochthonous transmission reported in California in more than 30 years and (2) the first ever reported case in the greater Los Angeles area.
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spelling pubmed-51704982016-12-23 Autochthonous Transmission of Trypanosoma Cruzi in Southern California Hernandez, Salvador Flores, Carmen A. Viana, Gracia M. Sanchez, Daniel R. Traina, Mahmoud I. Meymandi, Sheba K. Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Report Trypanosoma cruzi usually infects humans via triatomine insects in Latin America. Vector-borne transmission in the United States is exceedingly rare. We describe (1) the first case of probable autochthonous transmission reported in California in more than 30 years and (2) the first ever reported case in the greater Los Angeles area. Oxford University Press 2016-12-20 /pmc/articles/PMC5170498/ /pubmed/28018928 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofw227 Text en © The Author 2016. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 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 reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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