The epidemiological relevance of family study in Chagas disease

Inés Zulantay; Werner Apt; Daniel Ramos; Lorena Godoy; Claudio Valencia; Matías Molina; Eduardo Sepúlveda; Patricio Thieme; Gabriela Martínez; Gabriela Corral

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0001959

The epidemiological relevance of family study in Chagas disease

PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2013;7(2):e1959. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001959. Epub 2013 Feb 14.

Authors

Inés Zulantay¹, Werner Apt, Daniel Ramos, Lorena Godoy, Claudio Valencia, Matías Molina, Eduardo Sepúlveda, Patricio Thieme, Gabriela Martínez, Gabriela Corral

Affiliation

¹ Laboratory of Basic Clinical Parasitology, Program of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile. izulanta@med.uchile.cl

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Adult
Chagas Disease / epidemiology*
Child
Child, Preschool
Family Health*
Female
Humans
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Male
Middle Aged
Pregnancy
Prevalence
Young Adult

Grants and funding

This study was funded by FONDECYT Projects 1080445 and 1100768 (http://www.fondecyt.cl/578/channel.html). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.