Venezuela's humanitarian crisis, resurgence of vector-borne diseases, and implications for spillover in the region

ME Grillet, JV Hernández-Villena… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2019 - thelancet.com
Summary In the past 5–10 years, Venezuela has faced a severe economic crisis,
precipitated by political instability and declining oil revenue. Public health provision has …

Between a bug and a hard place: Trypanosoma cruzi genetic diversity and the clinical outcomes of Chagas disease

LA Messenger, MA Miles, C Bern - Expert review of anti-infective …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Over the last 30 years, concomitant with successful transnational disease control programs
across Latin America, Chagas disease has expanded from a neglected, endemic parasitic …

Chagas disease diagnostic applications: present knowledge and future steps

V Balouz, F Agüero, CA Buscaglia - Advances in parasitology, 2017 - Elsevier
Chagas disease, caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, is a lifelong and debilitating
illness of major significance throughout Latin America and an emergent threat to global …

Infectious disease implications of large-scale migration of Venezuelan nationals

AR Tuite, A Thomas-Bachli, H Acosta… - Journal of travel …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Background The ongoing economic and political crisis in Venezuela has resulted in a
collapse of the healthcare system and the re-emergence of previously controlled or …

Understanding the oral transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi as a veterinary and medical foodborne zoonosis

N Velásquez-Ortiz, JD Ramírez - Research in veterinary science, 2020 - Elsevier
Chagas disease is a neglected tropical disease transmitted by the protozoan Trypanosoma
cruzi that lately has been highlighted because several outbreaks attributed to oral …

Molecular diagnosis of Chagas disease in Colombia: parasitic loads and discrete ty** units in patients from acute and chronic phases

C Hernández, Z Cucunubá, C Flórez… - PLoS neglected …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Background The diagnosis of Chagas disease is complex due to the dynamics of
parasitemia in the clinical phases of the disease. The molecular tests have been considered …

Venezuela and its rising vector-borne neglected diseases

PJ Hotez, MG Basáñez, A Acosta-Serrano… - PLoS neglected …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Poverty remains the overriding social determinant for the neglected tropical diseases
(NTDs), but over the last several decades, we have also seen how political destabilization or …

Small subunit ribosomal metabarcoding reveals extraordinary trypanosomatid diversity in Brazilian bats

MA Dario, R Moratelli, P Schwabl… - PLoS Neglected …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Background Bats are a highly successful, globally dispersed order of mammals that occupy
a wide array of ecological niches. They are also intensely parasitized and implicated in …

A systematic review of the Trypanosoma cruzi genetic heterogeneity, host immune response and genetic factors as plausible drivers of chronic chagasic …

P Jiménez, J Jaimes, C Poveda, JD Ramírez - Parasitology, 2019 - cambridge.org
Chagas disease is a complex tropical pathology caused by the kinetoplastid Trypanosoma
cruzi. This parasite displays massive genetic diversity and has been classified by …

Imaging the development of chronic Chagas disease after oral transmission

MD Lewis, AF Francisco, S Jayawardhana… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Chagas disease is a zoonosis caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi.
Transmission cycles are maintained by haematophagous triatomine bug vectors that carry …