Chagas disease in Switzerland: history and challenges
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Chagas disease in Switzerland: history and challenges.
Chagas disease, endemic in Latin America, is an emerging health problem in Europe affecting an estimated 80,000 persons. Around 60,000 Latin American migrants live in Switzerland, and cases of Chagas disease have been reported since 1979. As of June 2011, 258 cases have been diagnosed, mostly adults in the indeterminate phase of the chronic stage of the disease. Vertical transmission has been i...
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عنوان ژورنال: Eurosurveillance
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1560-7917
DOI: 10.2807/ese.16.37.19963-en