Urban outbreak of acute orally acquired Chagas disease in Táchira, Venezuela.
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1 Chief, Chagas Disease National Program, Ministry of Health, Maracay, Aragua, Venezuela 2 Program in International Medicine, Universidad de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain 3 Pediatrics Service, 4 Infectious Diseases Service, 5 Pediatric Cardiology Service, Centro Clínico San Cristóbal, San Cristóbal, Táchira, Venezuela 6 Hematology Service, 7 Pathology Service, Hospital Central de San Cristóbal, San Cristóbal, Táchira, Venezuela 8 Regional Epidemiology, Corposalud, San Cristóbal, Táchira, Venezuela. 9 Departament of Public Health, Unit of Biostatistics; Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain 10 Instituto José Witremundo Torrealba, Universidad de Los Andes, Trujillo, Trujillo, Venezuela 11 Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia 12 Office of Scientific Research, Cooperativa de Entidades de Salud de Risaralda (COODESURIS), Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of infection in developing countries
دوره 7 8 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2013