Molecular Epidemiologic Source Tracking of Orally Transmitted Chagas Disease, Venezuela

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  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.
• Description:
  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.
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Adult Antibodies, Protozoan Chagas Disease Child Cluster Analysis Contact Tracing Discriminant Analysis Disease Outbreaks Genes, Protozoan Humans Microsatellite Repeats Molecular Epidemiology Molecular Typing Phylogeny Principal Component Analysis

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• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 19(7):1098-1101.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Genre:
  Dispatch
• Place as Subject:
  Venezuela
• Volume:
  19
• Issue:
  7
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:c96ddc88f460d27a3359cf71179d6531933fe22f05fa5ad9235ec5724aae1ddc
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/21700/cdc_21700_DS1.pdf
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