TY - JOUR AU - Nóbrega, Aglaêr A. AU - Garcia, Marcio H. AU - Tatto, Erica AU - Obara, Marcos T. AU - Costa, Elenild AU - Sobel, Jeremy AU - Araujo, Wildo N. T1 - Oral Transmission of Chagas Disease by Consumption of Açaí Palm Fruit, Brazil T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2009 VL - 15 IS - 4 SP - 653 SN - 1080-6059 AB - In 2006, a total of 178 cases of acute Chagas disease were reported from the Amazonian state of Pará, Brazil. Eleven occurred in Barcarena and were confirmed by visualization of parasites on blood smears. Using cohort and case–control studies, we implicated oral transmission by consumption of açaí palm fruit. KW - Acute Chagas disease KW - foodborne disease KW - açaí palm fruit KW - oral transmission KW - Amazon KW - Brazil KW - dispatch DO - 10.3201/eid1504.081450 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/15/4/08-1450_article ER - End of Reference