Positividade do xenodiagnóstico de acordo com a faixa etária, o sexo e a forma clínica da doença de chagas

Resumo

Seventy-six chronic phase chagasic patients, with known clinicai and serology examinations, were submited to xenodiagnosis. None of the patients have had specific treatment before. Thirty-six bugs, equally distributed in 4 species, were used in each xenodiagnosis. The xenodiagnosis positivity was of 55,3%, and showed no correlation between age, sex, and clinicai form of the disease.

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Palavras-chave

Xenodiagnóstico, Doença de Chagas, Trypanosoma cruzi, Forma clínica, Triatomíneos, Xenodiagnosis, Chagas' disease, Trypanosoma cruzi, Triatomines

Citação

SILVA, Ionizete Garcia da; SILVA, Heloísa Helena Garcia da; OSTERMAYER, Alejandro Luquetti; REZENDE, Joffre Marcondes de. Positividade do xenodiagnóstico de acordo com a faixa etária, o sexo e a forma clínica da doença de chagas. Revista de Patologia Tropical, Goiânia, v. 24, n. 2, p. 193-197, jan./jun. 1995. Disponível em: <https://www.revistas.ufg.br/iptsp/article/view/19689/11353>.