Seroepidemiological study of chagas disease in the southern Amazon region of ecuador

Angel G Guevara1, Richard D Atherton, Michael A Wauters

  • 1Laboratorio de Parasitologia Molecular y Medicina Tropical, Centro de Biomedicina, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador.

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