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

ABSTRACT:

Background

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 to 181000 subjects, mostly resident in Spain, Italy and the United Kingdom.

Methodology/principal findings

Retrospective, observational study describing the characteristics of patients with CD who attended the Centre for Tropical Diseases (Negrar, Verona, Italy) between 2005 and 2013. All the patients affected by CD underwent chest X-ray, ECG, echocardiography, barium X-ray of the oesophagus and colonic enema. They were classified in the indeterminate, cardiac, digestive or mixed category according t

SUBMITTER: Gobbi F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4263408 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature