Abstract

SUAREZ-MEROHAN, EDWIN URIEL et al. Acute Chagas disease Diagnostic experience through an outbreak. Acta Med Colomb [online]. 2023, vol.48, n.2, e9.  Epub Apr 07, 2024. ISSN 0120-2448.  https://doi.org/10.36104/amc.2023.2727.

Chagas disease is a public health problem in Latin America, with a tendency to globalize due to migration phenomena. The acute phase of the disease tends to be indolent, but a low percentage of patients have an ominous course, especially when the route of transmission is oral, presenting as a prolonged febrile syndrome in the form of an epidemic outbreak. Early detection of the disease will probably avoid morbid outcomes and, in some cases, death. In this case report we summarize a diagnostic approach by describing the index case in an epidemic outbreak. (Acta Med Colomb 2022; 48. DOI:https://doi.org/10.36104/amc.2023.2727).

Keywords : Chagas disease; Trypanosoma cruzi; epidemic outbreak; fever of unknown origin.

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