Study on Chagas disease occurrence in the municipality of Monte Negro, State of Rondônia, Brazilian Amazon

• Published in: Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
• Main Authors: Elaine Oliveira Costa de Carvalho, João Aristeu da Rosa, Anderson Antonio de Carvalho, Hialli Cristine Oliveira Chaves, Everton Almeida de Souza, Alejandro Luquetti Ostermayer, Luís Marcelo Aranha de Camargo
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) 2011
• Subjects: Doença de Chagas; Amazônia; Trypanosoma cruzi; Triatomíneos; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Arctic; Monte Negro
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/S0037-86822011000600010; https://doaj.org/article/c71f70fe60e6438eac63d96425750c09

INTRODUCTION: Studies on Chagas disease deal with the perspective of its occurrence in the Amazon region, which is directly correlated to the population growth and the spread of the bug biotope. The state of Rondônia has an immense source of vectors (Triatomine) and reservoirs of Trypanosoma cruzi....