Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical · 2013 · 109 citations · 3 references
Veterinary MedicineInfectious DiseasesMicrobiologyEmerging Infectious DiseasesInfectious Disease EpidemiologyParasitologyChagas DiseaseMedical ParasitologyParasitic ZoonosesTropical MedicineZoonotic Disease DetectionZoonotic Parasitic DiseasesAcute Chagas DiseaseDiagnostics Of Parasitic DiseasesFecal-oral TransmissionTrypanosoma Cruzi Infection
INTRODUCTION: Chagas disease is considered as emerging in the Brazilian Amazon, usually occurring in acute outbreaks. METHODS: We describe 17 cases of acute Chagas disease in Rio Negro, Amazonas. RESULTS: There were 15 males (average age, 31.3 years), all positive for Trypanosoma cruzi in fresh blood smear examination, and 14 positive by xenodiagnosis and PCR. The top clinical manifestations were fever, asthenia, abdominal pain, and palpitations. Electrocardiograms featured low-voltage QRS, anterosuperior divisional block, and right bundle branch block associated with anterosuperior divisional block. CONCLUSIONS: All patients had consumed açaí products from Monte Alegre in the rural area around Santa Izabel do Rio Negro, Brazil.
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Chagas disease in the Amazon Region
Hugo Marcelo Aguilar, Fernando Abad‐Franch, João Carlos Pinto Dias et al. · Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz · 2007 · 164 citations · Full text