Oral Transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi, Brazilian Amazon

In the Brazilian Amazon, the suspected source of infection in an outbreak of acute Chagas disease involving 10 patients was Euterpe oleracea (açaí berry) juice. Patient blood and juice samples contained Trypanosoma cruzi TcIV, indicating oral transmission of the Chagas disease agent.

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Veröffentlicht in:Emerg Infect Dis
Hauptverfasser: Santana, Rosa Amélia G., Guerra, Maria Graças V.B., Sousa, Débora R., Couceiro, Kátia, Ortiz, Jessica V., Oliveira, Maurício, Ferreira, Lucas S., Souza, Kenny R., Tavares, Igor C., Morais, Romulo F., Silva, George A.V., Melo, Gisely C., Vergel, Gabriel M., Albuquerque, Bernardino C., Arcanjo, Ana Ruth L., Monteiro, Wuelton M., Ferreira, João Marcos B.B., Lacerda, Marcus V.G., Silveira, Henrique, Guerra, Jorge Augusto O.
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Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2019
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6302584/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30561299
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2501.180646
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