Current State Of Research About De Chagas Disease In Peru

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  • Alberto Cornejo Donayre Instituto de Medicina Triopical "Daniel A. Carrión", Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15381/anales.v50i3-4.5538

Abstract

In 1919 the first case of Chagas disease in Peru ( 1) was diagnosed , but two years earlier had shown infection with T. cruzi in triatomideos captured in a valley of the department of Arequipa (2 ) . Subsequently no investigation was carried out on this disease until 1943-1944 ( 3) , the first epidemiological studies were made, the second case diagnosed and showing natural infection with T. cruzi in guinea pigs and dogs in a zone where we now know that disease is endemic. It is from 1950-51 (4) (5) , that research and report that we had the opportunity to present the VI International Congress of Tropical Medicine and Malaria (6 ) will intensify, we collect 204 cases diagnosed by several researchers in polls made in 7 departments and the first came from Madre de Dios ( Arequipa , Tacna , Moquegua , San Martín , Cajamarca and Amazonas) ; plus information on triatomideos , animal reservoirs of T. cruzi and other important aspects of this epidemic logical Trypanosomiasis in those departments and Tumbes , Piura, La Libertad, Lima , Junín , read and Cuzco .

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Published

1967-12-18

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Vol. 50 No. 3-4 (1967)

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Cornejo Donayre A. Current State Of Research About De Chagas Disease In Peru. An Fac med [Internet]. 1967 Dec. 18 [cited 2024 Jul. 16];50(3-4):465-72. Available from: https://revistasinvestigacion.unmsm.edu.pe/index.php/anales/article/view/5538