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

• 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

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.