Molecular Epidemiologic Source Tracking of Orally Transmitted Chagas Disease, Venezuela

Segovia, Maikell; Carrasco, Hernán J.; Martínez, Clara E.; Messenger, Louisa A.; Nessi, Anaibeth; Londoño, Juan C.; Espinosa, Raul; Martínez, Cinda; Alfredo, Mijares; Bonfante-Cabarcas, Rafael; Lewis, Michael D.; de Noya, Belkisyolé A.; Miles, Michael A.; Llewellyn, Martin S.

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Molecular Epidemiologic Source Tracking of Orally Transmitted Chagas Disease, Venezuela

Published Date:

Jul 2013

Source:

Emerg Infect Dis. 19(7):1098-1101.

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Segovia, Maikell ; Carrasco, Hernán J. ; Martínez, Clara E. ; Messenger, Louisa A. ; Nessi, Anaibeth ; ... More ▼

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Oral outbreaks of Chagas disease are increasingly reported in Latin America. The transitory presence of Trypanosoma cruzi parasites within contaminated foods, and the rapid consumption of those foods, precludes precise identification of outbreak origin. We report source attribution for 2 peri-urban oral outbreaks of Chagas disease in Venezuela via high resolution microsatellite typing.

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