New Scenarios of Chagas Disease Transmission in Northern Colombia

Chagas disease (CD) is a systemic parasitic infection caused by the flagellated form of Trypanosoma cruzi. Córdoba department, located in the Colombian Caribbean Coast, was not considered as a region at risk of T. cruzi transmission. In this article, we describe the first acute CD case in Salitral v...

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Autores principales: Tovar Acero, Catalina, Negrete Peñata, Jorge, González, Camila, León, Cielo, Ortiz, Mario, Chacón Pacheco, Julio, Monterrosa, Elkin, Luna, Abraham, Ricardo Caldera, Dina, Espitia-Pérez, Lyda
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Publicado: Hindawi 2017
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5634585/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29082037
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/3943215
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author Tovar Acero, Catalina
Negrete Peñata, Jorge
González, Camila
León, Cielo
Ortiz, Mario
Chacón Pacheco, Julio
Monterrosa, Elkin
Luna, Abraham
Ricardo Caldera, Dina
Espitia-Pérez, Lyda
author_facet Tovar Acero, Catalina
Negrete Peñata, Jorge
González, Camila
León, Cielo
Ortiz, Mario
Chacón Pacheco, Julio
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Luna, Abraham
Ricardo Caldera, Dina
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description Chagas disease (CD) is a systemic parasitic infection caused by the flagellated form of Trypanosoma cruzi. Córdoba department, located in the Colombian Caribbean Coast, was not considered as a region at risk of T. cruzi transmission. In this article, we describe the first acute CD case in Salitral village in Sahagún, Córdoba, confirmed by microscopy and serological tests. Our results draw attention to a new scenario of transmission of acute CD in nonendemic areas of Colombia and highlight the need to include CD in the differential diagnosis of febrile syndromes in this region.
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spelling pubmed-56345852017-10-29 New Scenarios of Chagas Disease Transmission in Northern Colombia Tovar Acero, Catalina Negrete Peñata, Jorge González, Camila León, Cielo Ortiz, Mario Chacón Pacheco, Julio Monterrosa, Elkin Luna, Abraham Ricardo Caldera, Dina Espitia-Pérez, Lyda J Parasitol Res Research Article Chagas disease (CD) is a systemic parasitic infection caused by the flagellated form of Trypanosoma cruzi. Córdoba department, located in the Colombian Caribbean Coast, was not considered as a region at risk of T. cruzi transmission. In this article, we describe the first acute CD case in Salitral village in Sahagún, Córdoba, confirmed by microscopy and serological tests. Our results draw attention to a new scenario of transmission of acute CD in nonendemic areas of Colombia and highlight the need to include CD in the differential diagnosis of febrile syndromes in this region. Hindawi 2017 2017-09-26 /pmc/articles/PMC5634585/ /pubmed/29082037 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/3943215 Text en Copyright © 2017 Catalina Tovar Acero et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Luna, Abraham
Ricardo Caldera, Dina
Espitia-Pérez, Lyda
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29082037
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/3943215
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