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The contemporary distribution of Trypanosoma cruzi infection in humans, alternative hosts and vectors

Browne, A.J.; Guerra, C.A.; Alves, R.V.; Costa, V.M.; Wilson, A.L.; Pigott, D.M.; Hay, S.I.; Lindsay, S.W.; Golding, N.; Moyes, C.L.

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Authors

A.J. Browne

C.A. Guerra

R.V. Alves

V.M. Costa

A.L. Wilson

D.M. Pigott

S.I. Hay

N. Golding

C.L. Moyes



Abstract

Chagas is a potentially fatal chronic disease affecting large numbers of people across the Americas and exported throughout the world through human population movement. It is caused by the Trypanosoma cruzi parasite, which is transmitted by triatomine vectors to humans and a wide range of alternative host species. The database described here was compiled to allow the risk of vectorial transmission to humans to be mapped using geospatial models. The database collates all available records, published since 2003, for prevalence and occurrence of infection in humans, vectors and alternative hosts, and links each record to a defined time and location. A total of 16,802 records of infection have been extracted from the published literature and unpublished sources. The resulting database can be used to improve our understanding of the geographic variation in vector infection prevalence and to estimate the risk of vectorial transmission of T. cruzi to humans

Citation

Browne, A., Guerra, C., Alves, R., Costa, V., Wilson, A., Pigott, D., …Moyes, C. (2017). The contemporary distribution of Trypanosoma cruzi infection in humans, alternative hosts and vectors. Scientific Data, 4, Article 170050. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2017.50

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Mar 13, 2017
Online Publication Date Apr 11, 2017
Publication Date Apr 11, 2017
Deposit Date Apr 12, 2017
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Scientific Data
Publisher Nature Research
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 4
Article Number 170050
DOI https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2017.50

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