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DETECTION AND GENOTYPING OF TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI FROM AÇAI PRODUCTS COMMERCIALIZED IN RIO DE JANEIRO AND PARÁ, BRAZIL
Trypanosoma cruzi
Açaí
Transmissão oral
Técnicas de Genotipagem
Vigilância Sanitária
Trypanosoma cruzi
Açaí
Oral transmission
T.. cruzy genotyping
Health surveillance
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Several cases of food-borne acute Chagas disease (ACD) have been reported in the Brazilian Amazon so far. Up to 2004, the occurrence of ACD by oral transmission, associated with food consumption, was rare. Recent cases of ACD in Brazil have been attributed to the consumption of juice from the açai palm containing reservoir animals or insect vectors waste, infected with Trypanosoma cruzi. This study aimed to determine the T. cruzi contamination rate and to genotype the parasite in food samples prepared from açai, which are commercialized in Rio de Janeiro and the Pará States in Brazil.
Keywords in Portuguese
Doença de ChagasTrypanosoma cruzi
Açaí
Transmissão oral
Técnicas de Genotipagem
Vigilância Sanitária
Keywords
Chagas DiseaseTrypanosoma cruzi
Açaí
Oral transmission
T.. cruzy genotyping
Health surveillance
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