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Large urban outbreak of orally acquired acute Chagas disease at a school in Caracas, Venezuela.

Belkisyolé Alarcón de Noya, Zoraida Díaz-Bello, Cecilia Colmenares, Raiza Ruiz-Guevara, Luciano Mauriello, Reinaldo Zavala-Jaspe, José Antonio Suarez, Teresa Abate, Laura Naranjo, Manuel Paiva, Lavinia Rivas, Julio Castro, Juan Márques, Iván Mendoza, Harry Acquatella, Jaime Torres, and Oscar Noya

J Infect Dis 201(9):1308-15 (2010) PMID 20307205

Trypanosoma cruzi oral transmission is possible through food contamination by vector's feces. Little is known about the epidemiology and clinical features of microepidemics of orally acquired acute Chagas disease (CD).

DOI: 10.1086/651608
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