Climatic factors related to Chagas disease transmission
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Oral transmission of Chagas disease.
Chagas disease is now an active disease in the urban centers of countries of nonendemicity and endemicity because of congenital and blood and/or organ transplantation transmissions and the reactivation of the chronic disease in smaller scale than vectorial transmission, reported as controlled in countries of endemicity. Oral transmission of Chagas disease has emerged in unpredictable situations...
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عنوان ژورنال: Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0074-0276
DOI: 10.1590/s0074-02761999000700071