On the possibility of autochthonous Chagas disease in Roraima, Amazon region, Brazil, 2000-2001 Sobre a possibilidade da ocorrência de doença de Chagas autóctone em Roraima, Amazônia brasileira, 2000-2001

• Published in: Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
• Main Authors: José Francisco Luitgards-Moura, José Borges-Pereira, Jane Costa, Patrícia Lago Zauza, Maria Goreti Rosa-Freitas
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo (USP) 2005
• Subjects: Chagas disease; Agricultural Settlements; Amazon; Roraima; Brazil; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Infectious and parasitic diseases; RC109-216; Arctic; Nordeste
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/S0036-46652005000100008; https://doaj.org/article/fdd1487ad78d4ef3b7ac32d43f371cf0

Chagas disease has been almost entirely eradicated from the arid zones in Central and Northeastern Brazil where rare or no autochthonous cases have been reported. However, in the last 10 years the disease has increasingly been registered in the Amazon Region. Aiming to investigate the possibility of...