Oral Transmission of Chagas Disease by Consumption of Açaí Palm Fruit, Brazil

In 2006, a total of 178 cases of acute Chagas disease were reported from the Amazonian state of Pará, Brazil. Eleven occurred in Barcarena and were confirmed by visualization of parasites on blood smears. Using cohort and case–control studies, we implicated oral transmission by consumption of açaí palm fruit.

• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Emerging Infectious Diseases

• Publication date

  2009-04-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.3201/eid1504.081450PMID 19331764PMCID 2671433
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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