Profile of Trypanosoma cruzi infection in a tropical medicine reference center, Northern Italy.

• Main Authors: Federico Gobbi (Author), Andrea Angheben (Author), Mariella Anselmi (Author), Chiara Postiglione (Author), Ernestina Repetto (Author), Dora Buonfrate (Author), Stefania Marocco (Author), Stefano Tais (Author), Andrea Chiampan (Author), Paride Mainardi (Author), Zeno Bisoffi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<h4>Background</h4>Chagas disease (CD) is endemic in Central and South America, Mexico and even in some areas of the United States. However, cases have been increasingly recorded also in non-endemic countries. The estimated number of infected people in Europe is in a wide range of 14000...