American trypanosomiasis : Chagas disease : one hundred years of research /
Chagas Disease causes severe socioeconomic impact and a high medical cost in Latin America. WHO and the World Bank consider Chagas Disease as the fourth most transmittable disease to have a major impact on public health in Latin America: 120 million persons are potentially exposed, 16-18 million of...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Elsevier,
2010.
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Colección: | Elsevier insights.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- General aspects
- Insect vectors
- Non-human mammalian hosts
- The causative agent : Trypanosoma cruzi
- Modes of transmission
- Immunology : host-parasite interaction
- Pathology, diagnosis, and treatment.