Oral transmission of Chagas disease by consumption of acai palm fruit, Brazil.(THE AMAZON REGION: DISPATCHES)

Emerging Infectious Diseases | April 1, 2009| | Copyright

Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis) chronically infects [approximately equal to]10 million persons in Latin America (1). The etiologic agent is Trypanosoma cruzi, which is transmitted by bloodsucking triatomine insects. Other modes of transmission are transfusional, congenital, and oral (foodborne) (2). Oral transmission occurs by consumption of foods contaminated with triatomines or their feces or by consumption of raw meat from infected mammalian sylvatic hosts (3). The precise stage of food handling at which contamination occurs is unknown. The first outbreak of ...

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