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Genotype diversity of Trypanosoma cruzi in small rodents and Triatoma sanguisuga from a rural area in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Parasites & vectors - 24 Feb 2015
Herrera Claudia P, Licon Meredith H, Nation Catherine S, Jameson Samuel B, Wesson Dawn M
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Chagas disease is an anthropozoonosis caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi that represents a major public health problem in Latin America. Although the United States is defined as non-endemic for Chagas disease due to the rarity of human cases, the presence of T. cruzi has now been amply demonstrated as enzootic in different regions of the south of the country from Georgia to California....
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