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      Oral transmission of Chagas disease.

      Clinical Infectious Diseases: An Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
      Animals, Chagas Disease, diagnosis, epidemiology, parasitology, transmission, Disease Vectors, Food Parasitology, Humans, Triatominae, Trypanosoma cruzi

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          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 in the Amazon region and, more rarely, in areas of nonendemicity where the domiciliary triatomine cycle was under control because of exposition of the food to infected triatomine and contaminated secretions of reservoir hosts. Oral transmission of Chagas disease is considered when >1 acute case of febrile disease without other causes is linked to a suspected food and should be confirmed by the presence of the parasite after direct microscopic examination of the blood or other biological fluid sample from the patient.

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          22238161
          10.1093/cid/cir956

          Chemistry
          Animals,Chagas Disease,diagnosis,epidemiology,parasitology,transmission,Disease Vectors,Food Parasitology,Humans,Triatominae,Trypanosoma cruzi

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