Journal article
The contemporary distribution of Trypanosoma cruzi infection in humans, alternative hosts and vectors
AJ Browne, CA Guerra, RV Alves, VM Da Costa, AL Wilson, DM Pigott, SI Hay, SW Lindsay, N Golding, CL Moyes
Scientific Data | NATURE PORTFOLIO | Published : 2017
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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 b..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The authors are grateful to the following people who provided unpublished data: Mariolga Berrizbeita, Laurent Brutus, Jean-Philippe Chippaux and Jose Alejandro Martinez Ibarra, in addition to our co-authors Veruska Maia Costa and Renato Vieira Alves. We are also grateful to the authors who confirmed details of their published work and who are cited in the relevant published datasets linked to this data descriptor. We are also grateful to Maria Devine who obtained the published articles that fed into this work and proof read the manuscript. This work was funded by grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation [OPP1093011; OPP1053338]. C.L.M. had full access to all the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis.