Clinical follow-up of responses to treatment with benznidazol in Amazon: a cohort study of acute Chagas disease.

A total of 179 individuals with acute Chagas disease mainly transmitted by oral source, from Pará and Amapá State, Amazonian, Brazil were included during the period from 1988 to 2005. Blood samples were used to survey peripheral blood for T. cruzi hemoparasites by quantitative buffy coat (QBC), indi...

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Main Authors: Ana Yecê das Neves Pinto, Vera da Costa Valente, José Rodrigues Coura, Sebastião Aldo da Silva Valente, Angela Cristina Veríssimo Junqueira, Laura Cristina Santos, Alberto Gomes Ferreira, Roberto Cavalleiro de Macedo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3664625?pdf=render