Medicine
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DOI: 10.17160/josha.6.4.551
CASE REPORT: ORALLY TRANSMITTED ACUTE CHAGAS’ DISEASE FROM A CASE IN A PUBLIC HOSPITAL IN BUCARAMANGA CITY, COLOMBIA.
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Angie Katherine Bello Suárez, Patrik Eliana Sarmiento Wilches, Luis Miguel Sosa Ávila
Universidad Industrial de Santander
CONCEPTS Chagas’ disease, a zoonosis caused by Trypanosoma cruzi, is present in South America. Can be vectorborne, bloodborne and congenital infection. It shows tropism through smooth cardiac and gastrointestinal muscle,…