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Tripanosomiasis americana

Prevención:

El control de los insectos con insecticidas y las viviendas que tengan menos probabilidad de tener altas poblaciones de insectos ayudarán a controlar la propagación de la enfermedad.

Los bancos de sangre en Centro y Suramérica examinan a los donantes para verificar una exposición al parásito y se descarta la sangre si el donante resulta positivo. La mayoría de los bancos de sangre en los Estados Unidos comenzaron a practicar pruebas de detección para la enfermedad de Chagas en 2007.

Chupo

Anticuerpos

Reviewed last on: 9/15/2010
David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc., and Jatin M. Vyas, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Assistant in Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital.

Referencias

Kirchhoff LV. Trypanosoma species (American trypanosomiasis, Chagas' disease): Biology of trypanosomes. In: Mandell GL, Bennett JE, Dolin R, eds. Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases. 7th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier Churchill Livingstone; 2009:chap 277.

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