Acute Chagas disease in El Salvador 2000-2012 - Need for surveillance and control

Several parasitological studies carried out in El Salvador between 2000-2012 showed a higher frequency of acute cases of Chagas disease than that in other Central American countries. There is an urgent need for improved Chagas disease surveillance and vector control programs in the provinces where a...

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Published in:Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
Main Authors: Emi Sasagawa, Ana Vilma Guevara de Aguilar, Marta Alicia Hernández de Ramírez, José Eduardo Romero Chévez, Jun Nakagawa, Rafael Antonio Cedillos, Kiyoshi Kita
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde 2014
Subjects:
acute Chagas disease
El Salvador 2000-2012
surveillance and control
Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine
RC955-962
Microbiology
QR1-502
Arctic
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1590/0074-0276140416
https://doaj.org/article/15fcda8b170d496ea204a8b1a4f6f760
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Summary:Several parasitological studies carried out in El Salvador between 2000-2012 showed a higher frequency of acute cases of Chagas disease than that in other Central American countries. There is an urgent need for improved Chagas disease surveillance and vector control programs in the provinces where acute Chagas disease occurs and throughout El Salvador as a whole.

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