Perspective piece: In search of congenital Chagas disease in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia

Chagas disease remains a major impediment to sustainable socioeconomic development in Latin America. Transplacental transmission explains the persistence of transmission in urban areas, in non-endemic regions, and in areas with an established interrupted vectorial transmission. One of every five cas...

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Autores:
Parra Henao, Gabriel Jaime
Oliveros Gamez, Horacio Mario
Hotez P.J.
Motoa G.
Franco-Paredes C.
Henao-Martínez A.F.
Tipo de recurso:
Article of journal
Fecha de publicación:
2019
Institución:
Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia
Repositorio:
Repositorio UCC
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OAI Identifier:
oai:repository.ucc.edu.co:20.500.12494/41297
Acceso en línea:
https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.19-0110
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85077319139&doi=10.3390%2fpathogens9010026&partnerID=40&md5=96e7dbf3b7e405ad02e645d1019cb80b
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12494/41297
Palabra clave:
Article
Colombia
congenital Chagas disease
disease burden
disease carrier
disease transmission
early diagnosis
geographic distribution
health care access
health care planning
health service
human
indigenous people
morbidity
mortality rate
nonhuman
perinatal mortality
placental transfer
point of care testing
polymerase chain reaction
pregnancy outcome
pregnant woman
prevalence
public health
social stigma
treatment planning
Venezuela
vertical transmission
vulnerable population
Chagas disease
Colombia
female
mortality
pregnancy
Trypanosoma cruzi
Chagas Disease
Colombia
Female
Humans
Infectious Disease Transmission
Vertical
Pregnancy
Public Health
Trypanosoma cruzi
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