Chagas Disease Has Not Been Controlled in Ecuador

PLoS One. 2016 Jun 28;11(6):e0158145. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0158145. eCollection 2016.

Eric Dumonteil^{1

2}, Claudia Herrera², Luiggi Martini³, Mario J Grijalva^{4

5}, Angel G Guevara⁶, Jaime A Costales⁵, H Marcelo Aguilar⁷, S Frédérique Brenière^{5

8}, Etienne Waleckx¹

¹ Laboratorio de Parasitología, Centro de Investigaciones Regionales ''Hideyo Noguchi", Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mérida, Yucatán, México.
² Department of Tropical Medicine, Vector-Borne Infectious Disease Research Center, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, United States of America.
³ Laboratorio de Parasitología "L. Martini y colaboradores", Guayaquil, Ecuador.
⁴ Tropical Disease Institute, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ohio University, Athens, OH, United States of America.
⁵ Center for Infectious and Chronic Disease Research, School of Biological Sciences, Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador.
⁶ Centro de Biomedicina, Carrera de Medicina, Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador.
⁷ Unidad de Salud Pública, Instituto Superior de Investigación y Posgrado, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador.
⁸ IRD, UMR INTERTRYP (IRD-CIRAD), Interactions hosts-vectors-parasites environment in the tropical neglected disease due to trypanosomatids, TA A-17/G, Campus international de Baillarguet, Montpellier, France.

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