Acute Chagas disease outbreak associated with oral transmission Surto de doença de Chagas aguda associada à transmissão oral

• Published in: Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
• Main Authors: Juarez Pereira Dias, Claudilson Bastos, Eline Araújo, Ana Verônica Mascarenhas, Eduardo Martins Netto, Fernanda Grassi, Miralba Silva, Erica Tatto, Jorge Mendonça, Renato Freitas Araújo, Maria Aparecida Shikanai-Yasuda, Roque Aras
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) 2008
• Subjects: Doenças de Chagas aguda; Trypanosoma cruzi; Triatoma sordida; Epidemiologia; Surto; Acute Chagas disease; Epidemiology; Outbreak; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Aguda; Arctic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/S0037-86822008000300014; https://doaj.org/article/ff92fd77f02943fcac8e9f1849c69a08

Seven individuals living in a town in the Southwest of Bahia developed sudden signs of cardiac and systemic impairment, with lethality of 28.6%. Serological tests were positive at least in one test in the five patients examined. Forty percent of the Triatoma sordida mynphs found inside or around Try...