학술논문
Molecular Epidemiologic Source Tracking of Orally Transmitted Chagas Disease, Venezuela.
Document Type
Article
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Source
Subject
*MOLECULAR epidemiology
*EPIDEMIOLOGY
*CHAGAS' disease
*TRYPANOSOMIASIS
*PROTOZOAN diseases
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ISSN
1080-6040
Abstract
Oral outbreaks of Chagas disease are increasingly reported in Latin America. The transitory presence of Trypanosoma cruzi parasites within contaminated foods, and the rapid consumption of those foods, precludes precise identification of outbreak origin. We report source attribution for 2 peri-urban oral outbreaks of Chagas disease in Venezuela via high resolution microsatellite typing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]