Article
Virulence of Trypanosoma cruzi from vector and reservoir in in natura açaí pulp resulting in food-borne acute Chagas disease at Pará State, Brazil
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BARBOSA, Rodrigo Labello et al. Virulence of Trypanosoma cruzi from vector and reservoir in in natura açaí pulp resulting in food-borne acute Chagas disease at Pará State, Brazil. Experimental Parasitology, v. 197, p. 68-75, 2019.
0014-4894
10.1016/j.exppara.2018.10.012
1090-2449
Autor
Barbosa, Rodrigo Labello Labello
Dias, Viviane Liotti
Lorosa, Elias Seixas
Costa, Elenild de Góes
Pereira, Karen Signori
Gilioli, Rovilson
Guaraldo, Ana Maria Aparecida
Passos, Luiz Augusto Corrêa
Resumen
In recent decades some outbreaks of food-borne acute Chagas disease (ACD) in humans were identified by clinical and epidemiological characterization after association through the ingestion of açaí pulp probably contaminated with Trypanosoma cruzi. Whereas Belém and Abaetetuba stood out as important risk regions for disease transmission, the importance of Rhodnius pictipes, and Philander opossum for the biological cycle of T. cruzi, and data from agribusiness market of açaí, to study T. cruzi from vector and reservoir of the Brazilian Amazon region is critical for this context. Thus, the purpose of this study was to verify the infective capacity and the virulence of T. cruzi in açaí pulp from vector and reservoir at Pará State experimentally. 2022-01-01