Chagas disease expands its epidemiological frontiers from rural to urban areas

B Alarcón de Noya, Z Díaz-Bello… - Frontiers in Tropical …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The infection with the hemoflagellate parasite Trypanosoma cruzi originates from America
where the wildlife cycle remains to alternate between mammals and hematophagous …

Large urban outbreak of orally acquired acute Chagas disease at a school in Caracas, Venezuela

B Alarcón de Noya, Z Díaz-Bello… - The Journal of …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Abstract (See the editorial commentary by Miles, on pages 1282–1284.) Background.
Trypanosoma cruzi oral transmission is possible through food contamination by vector's …

[HTML][HTML] Orally-transmitted Chagas disease: Epidemiological, clinical, serological and molecular outcomes of a school microepidemic in Chichiriviche de la Costa …

BA de Noya, C Colmenares, Z Díaz-Bello… - Parasite epidemiology …, 2016 - Elsevier
Oral transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi is a frequent cause of acute Chagas disease (ChD).
In the present cross-sectional study, we report the epidemiological, clinical, serological and …

Ten-year follow-up of the largest oral Chagas disease outbreak. Laboratory biomarkers of infection as indicators of therapeutic failure

Z Díaz-Bello, BA de Noya, A Muñoz-Calderón… - Acta Tropica, 2021 - Elsevier
Trypanosoma cruzi uses various mechanisms of infection to access humans. Since 1967,
food contaminated with metacyclic trypomastigotes has triggered several outbreaks of acute …

Comparación entre técnicas inmunológicas y moleculares para el diagnóstico de la enfermedad de Chagas

E Ferrer, M Lares, M Viettri, M Medina - Enfermedades Infecciosas y …, 2013 - Elsevier
Introducción La enfermedad de Chagas es causada por el parásito Trypanosoma cruzi. Esta
enfermedad comprende una fase aguda y una crónica. El diagnóstico presenta limitaciones …

The performance of laboratory tests in the management of a large outbreak of orally transmitted Chagas disease

BA Noya, Z Díaz-Bello, C Colmenares… - Memorias do Instituto …, 2012 - SciELO Brasil
Orally transmitted Chagas disease (ChD), which is a well-known entity in the Brazilian
Amazon Region, was first documented in Venezuela in December 2007, when 103 people …

Evaluation of commercial kits for the immunological and molecular diagnosis of Chagas disease in endemic areas of Venezuela

M Viettri, M Lares, M Medina, L Herrera… - … y microbiologia clinica …, 2022 - Elsevier
Introduction The sensitivity and specificity of diagnostic techniques for Chagas disease
depend largely on the antigens and targets used and on the immune response and …

Rapid Detection of Trypanosoma cruzi in Human Serum by Use of an Immunochromatographic Dipstick Test

R Reithinger, MJ Grijalva, RF Chiriboga… - Journal of clinical …, 2010 - Am Soc Microbiol
We evaluated a commercially available immunochromatographic dipstick test to detect
Trypanosoma cruzi infection in 366 human serum samples with known serological results …

Técnicas moleculares para el diagnóstico de la enfermedad de Chagas

E Ferrer - Saber, 2015 - ve.scielo.org
La enfermedad de Chagas es causada por el parásito Trypanosoma cruzi y comprende una
fase aguda, seguida de una fase crónica, con una parasitemia escasa y una clínica que va …

Enfermedad de Chagas sistémico en fase aguda por transmisión oral: diagnóstico integral de un caso autopsiado

J Suárez, CB de Suárez, BA de Noya… - Gaceta Médica de …, 2010 - saber.ucv.ve
Se presenta el primer caso autopsiado en Venezuela conenfermedad de Chagas por
transmisión oral. Se trata deuna joven de 24 años de edad con 8 semanas de …