Chagas Disease Has Not Been Controlled in Ecuador
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1 Laboratorio de Parasitología, Centro de Investigaciones Regionales ‘‘Hideyo Noguchi”, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mérida, Yucatán, México, 2 Department of Tropical Medicine, Vector-Borne Infectious Disease Research Center, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, United States of America, 3 Laboratorio de Parasitología “L. Martini y colaboradores”, Guayaquil, Ecuador, 4 Tropical Disease Institute, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ohio University, Athens, OH, United States of America, 5 Center for Infectious and Chronic Disease Research, School of Biological Sciences, Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador, 6 Centro de Biomedicina, Carrera de Medicina, Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador, 7 Unidad de Salud Pública, Instituto Superior de Investigación y Posgrado, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador, 8 IRD, UMR INTERTRYP (IRD-CIRAD), Interactions hosts-vectors-parasites environment in the tropical neglected disease due to trypanosomatids, TA A-17/G, Campus international de Baillarguet, Montpellier, France
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