Call to action: A literature review of Chagas disease risk in California 1916-2018

Alba Valdez-Tah; Carlos N Ibarra-Cerdeña

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0009035

Call to action: A literature review of Chagas disease risk in California 1916-2018

PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2021 Feb 25;15(2):e0009035. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0009035. eCollection 2021 Feb.

Authors

Alba Valdez-Tah¹, Carlos N Ibarra-Cerdeña²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anthropology, University of California-Irvine, City of Irvine, California, United States of America.
² Departamento de Ecología Humana, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Avanzados del IPN (Cinvestav) Unidad Mérida. Mérida, Yucatán, México.

No abstract available

Publication types

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

MeSH terms

Animals
California / epidemiology
Chagas Disease / epidemiology*
Emigrants and Immigrants*
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice*
Hispanic or Latino*
Humans
Latin America / ethnology
Socioeconomic Factors
Triatoma / parasitology
Trypanosoma cruzi / isolation & purification

Grants and funding

AVT thanks to the programs of Comexus-Fulbright Visiting Scholar and UC Mexus-Conacyt, both in 2016-17 and a second-year granted by UC Mexus-Conacyt from 2017-18, for a postdoctoral stay at the Department of Anthropology-UC Irvine. CNIC acknowledges financial support from the Secretaría de Educación Pública-Cinvestav (Project: FIDSC2018/160). The funders had no role in study design, data collection, and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.