Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (Apr 2014)

Acute Chagas disease in El Salvador 2000-2012 - Need for surveillance and control

  • Emi Sasagawa,
  • Ana Vilma Guevara de Aguilar,
  • Marta Alicia Hernández de Ramírez,
  • José Eduardo Romero Chévez,
  • Jun Nakagawa,
  • Rafael Antonio Cedillos,
  • Kiyoshi Kita

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/0074-0276140416
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 109, no. 2
pp. 256 – 258

Abstract

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Several parasitological studies carried out in El Salvador between 2000-2012 showed a higher frequency of acute cases of Chagas disease than that in other Central American countries. There is an urgent need for improved Chagas disease surveillance and vector control programs in the provinces where acute Chagas disease occurs and throughout El Salvador as a whole.

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