Correction: Prevalence and Transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi in People of Rural Communities of the High Jungle of Northern Peru
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There are several errors in this article. In Table 2, the age ranges are incorrectly listed under Community in column 1. The age ranges should be listed under Age Category in column 2. Please see the corrected Table 2 here. There is an error in affiliation 4 for authors Robert H. Gilman, Victor R. Quispe-Machaca, Jenny Ancca-Juarez, Manuela Verastegui, Gerardo Sanchez, Lilia Cabrera, César Náquira, Michael Z. Levy, and Working Group on Chagas Disease in Peru. Affiliation 4 should be: Faculty of Science and Philosophy Alberto Cazorla Talleri, University Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Urbanización Ingeniería, Lima, Peru. In Table 4, footnote 1 has a typo. T.cruzi should be italicized.
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Prevalence and Transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi in People of Rural Communities of the High Jungle of Northern Peru
BACKGROUND Vector-borne transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi is seen exclusively in the Americas where an estimated 8 million people are infected with the parasite. Significant research in southern Peru has been conducted to understand T. cruzi infection and vector control, however, much less is known about the burden of infection and epidemiology in northern Peru. METHODOLOGY A cross-sectional ...
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