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metadata.dc.type: | Artigo de Periódico |
Title: | Acute Chagas disease outbreak associated with oral transmission |
Other Titles: | Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical |
Authors: | Dias, Juarez Pereira Bastos, Claudilson Jose de Carvalho Araújo, Eline Gomes de Mascarenhas, Ana Verônica Martins Netto, Eduardo Grassi, Fernanda Silva, Miralba Tatto, Erica |
metadata.dc.creator: | Dias, Juarez Pereira Bastos, Claudilson Jose de Carvalho Araújo, Eline Gomes de Mascarenhas, Ana Verônica Martins Netto, Eduardo Grassi, Fernanda Silva, Miralba Tatto, Erica |
Abstract: | Seven individuals living in a town in the Southwest of Bahia developed sudden signs of cardiac and systemic impairment, with lethality of 28.6%. Serological tests were positive at least in one test in the five patients examined. Forty percent of the Triatoma sordida mynphs found inside or around Trypanosoma cruzi were found by blood culturig in there out five cases the homes of these cases were positive for Trypanosoma cruzi. Transmission probably occurred through consumption of water contaminated with triatomine feces. These findings emphasize the necessity to evaluation the importance of vectors like Triatoma sordida in maintaining the endemicity of this disease. |
Keywords: | Acute Chagas disease Trypanosoma cruzi Triatoma sordida Epidemiology Outbreak |
metadata.dc.publisher.country: | Brasil |
metadata.dc.rights: | Acesso Aberto |
URI: | http://repositorio.ufba.br/ri/handle/ri/15915 |
Issue Date: | 2008 |
Appears in Collections: | Artigo Publicado em Periódico (Faculdade de Medicina) |
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