From ancient to contemporary molecular eco-epidemiology of Chagas disease in the Americas

One of the best-studied populations with regard to Chagas disease is from the coastal area of northern Chile at the foot of the western Andean slopes. The extremely arid climate here generates rapid, spontaneous desiccation of buried bodies, arresting the decay process. The absence of rainfall then...

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2014

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Universidad del Rosario

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Repositorio EdocUR - U. Rosario

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eng

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oai:repository.urosario.edu.co:10336/26416

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpara.2014.02.005
https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/26416

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Chagas disease
Fossil DNA
Molecular ecoepidemiology
Paleoparasitology
Pre-Columbian civilisations
Trypanosoma cruzi DTUs

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