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Human infectiousness and parasite load in chronic patients seropositive for Trypanosoma cruzi in a rural area of the Argentine Chaco.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Mar 2020
Macchiaverna Natalia P, Enriquez Gustavo F, Bua Jacqueline, Fernández María P, Sartor Paula A, Gürtler Ricardo E, Cardinal Marta V
Abstract excerpt
A key parameter in the transmission of vector-borne infections, including Chagas disease, is the ability of the different host species to transmit the parasite to the vector (infectiousness). Here, we determined infectiousness to the vector of Trypanosoma cruzi-seropositive humans examined by artificial xenodiagnosis (XD), established its relationship with T. cruzi DNA levels (a surrogate of intensity of...
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