Large urban outbreak of orally acquired acute Chagas disease at a school in Caracas, Venezuela.
Alarcón de Noya
Belkisyolé
B
Departments of Immunology, Instituto de Medicina Tropical, Universidad Central de Venezuela. Código Postal 1041, Los Chaguaramos, Caracas, Venezuela. noyaoo@yahoo.com.
Díaz-Bello
Zoraida
Z
Colmenares
Cecilia
C
Ruiz-Guevara
Raiza
R
Mauriello
Luciano
L
Zavala-Jaspe
Reinaldo
R
Suarez
José Antonio
JA
Abate
Teresa
T
Naranjo
Laura
L
Paiva
Manuel
M
Rivas
Lavinia
L
Castro
Julio
J
Márques
Juan
J
Mendoza
Iván
I
Acquatella
Harry
H
Torres
Jaime
J
Noya
Oscar
O
D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D001628:Beverages / Q000469:parasitology; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D014355:Chagas Disease / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D002648:Child; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D005517:Foodborne Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D006386:Hemagglutination Tests; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D031647:Psidium / Q000469:parasitology; D012307:Risk Factors; D012574:Schools; D014349:Trypanosoma cruzi; D014505:Urban Population; D014687:Venezuela / Q000453:epidemiology; D055815:Young Adult