Urban outbreak of acute Chagas disease in Amazon region of Brazil: four-year follow-up after treatment with benznidazole Brote urbano de enfermedad aguda de Chagas en la región amazónica de Brasil: seguimiento de cuatro años después del tratamiento con benznidazol

• Main Authors: Ana Yecê das Neves Pinto, Alberto Gomes Ferreira Jr., Vera da Costa Valente, Geraldo Saburo Harada, Sebastião Aldo da Silva Valente
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2009
• Subjects: Cardiomiopatía chagásica; enfermedad de Chagas; brotes de enfermedades; transmisión de enfermedad; pruebas inmunológicas; Trypanosoma cruzi; Brasil; Benznidazole; Chagas cardiomyopathy; Chagas disease; disease outbreaks; disease transmission; immunologic tests; Brazil; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Aguda; Bajos
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/9a21520feb0642b6a55ef6411aef6894

The objective of this report is to describe treatment outcomes over a four-year period of patients with acute Chagas disease in the Amazon region of Brazil. An outbreak of Chagas disease in a low-income district of urban Belém, in September 2000, affected 11 people simultaneously, indicating the lik...