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Chagas disease - risk assessment by an environmental approach in northern Argentina
(Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2011-07)
Chagas' disease vector control has been based almost exclusively on the use of insecticides, A complementary control strategy highlighting environmental management has been developed based on analysis of field data from ...
Phylogeographic analysis of the 2000-2002 foot-and-mouth disease epidemic in Argentina
(2016)
Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is a highly transmissible disease of hooved livestock. Although FMD has been eradicated from many countries, economic and social consequences of FMD reintroductions are devastating. After ...
High Prevalence of Congenital Trypanosoma cruzi Infection and Family Clustering in Salta, Argentina
(American Academy of Pediatrics, 2005-06-06)
Objective.Trypanosoma cruzi, the causative agent of Chagas’ disease, is transmitted mainly by insect vectors, but congenital and transfusion-borne infections occasionally occur. The factors that are involved in transmission ...
Hepatitis C virus molecular evolution: Transmission, disease progression and antiviral therapy
(Baishideng Publishing Group, 2014-11)
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection represents an important public health problem worldwide. Reduction of HCV morbidity and mortality is a current challenge owned to several viral and host factors. Virus molecular evolution ...
Early diagnosis of congenital Trypanosoma cruzi infection, using shed acute phase antigen, in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
(American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2010-01)
Chagas' disease, or American trypanosomiasis, is caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanasoma cruzi. It is estimated that 15,000 new cases of congenital T. cruzi transmission occur in the Americas each year. The aim of ...
Molecular diagnosis of Trypanosoma cruzi
(Elsevier Science, 2018-08)
Chagas disease, caused by the kinetoplastid protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, affects millions of people, most of them neglected populations. The different phases of the disease, the transmission mode and the high genetic ...
Inequalities in the social determinants of Chagas disease in indigenous and creole people in the Argentine Chaco
(BioMed Central, 2019-06)
Background: The social determinants of health (SDHs) condition disease distribution and the ways they are handled. Socio-economic inequalities are closely linked to the occurrence of neglected tropical diseases, but empirical ...
Spatial effects in parasite-induced marine diseases of immobile hosts
(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2022)
Liver disease during pregnancy: acute viral hepatitis
(Mexican Association of Hepatology, 2006-07)
Acute viral hepatitis is the most common cause of jaundice in pregnancy. The course of most viral hepatitis infections (e.g., hepatitis A, B, C and D) is unaffected by pregnancy, however, a more severe course of viral ...
Trypanosoma cruzi infection at the maternal-fetal interface: Implications of parasite load in the congenital transmission and challenges in the diagnosis of infected newborns
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2019-06-07)
Trypanosoma cruzi is the protozoan unicellular parasite that causes Chagas disease. It can be transmitted from infected mothers to their babies via the connatal route, thus being able to perpetuate even in the absence of ...