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Case Reports
. 2018 Dec;99(6):1534-1536.
doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.18-0485.

Evidence of Likely Autochthonous Transmission of Chagas Disease in Arizona

Norman L Beatty  1 , Carlos M Perez-Velez  2 , Hayley D Yaglom  3 , Sharon Carson  2 , Eugene Liu  4 , Zain I Khalpey  5 , Stephen A Klotz  1 , Sean P Elliott  6
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Evidence of Likely Autochthonous Transmission of Chagas Disease in Arizona

Norman L Beatty et al. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2018 Dec.

Abstract

A healthy 16-year-old girl born and raised in Tucson, AZ, had screening and confirmatory testing revealing Chagas disease; clinical evaluation established that she had the indeterminate form of chronic Chagas disease with evidence of likely autochthonous transmission. Trypanosoma cruzi DNA was detected by conventional polymerase chain reaction in Triatoma rubida captured at her home.

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