Acute Pediatric Chagas Disease in Antioquia, Colombia: A Geographic Location of Suspected Oral Transmission

ABSTRACT: Chagas disease, Trypanosoma cruzi infection, is an insidious cause of heart failure in Latin America. Early diagnosis and treatment are critical to prevent irreversible myocardial damage that progressively accumulates over decades. Several structural barriers account for the less than 1% o...

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Autores:

Arango Ferreira, Catalina
Gual González, Lídia
Lopera Restrepo, Laura Camila
Cantillo Barraza, Omar
Velásquez Marín, Daniela
Restrepo Bustamante, Natalia
Triana Chávez, Omar
Nolan, Melissa S

Tipo de recurso:

Article of investigation

Fecha de publicación:

2021

Institución:

Universidad de Antioquia

Repositorio:

Repositorio UdeA

Idioma:

eng

OAI Identifier:

oai:bibliotecadigital.udea.edu.co:10495/40521

Acceso en línea:

https://hdl.handle.net/10495/40521

Palabra clave:

Enfermedad de Chagas
Chagas Disease
Niño
Child
Colombia
Trypanosoma cruzi
https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014355
https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D002648
https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D003105
https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014349

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openAccess

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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/