RESEARCH ARTICLE Prevalence and Transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi in People of Rural Communities of the High Jungle of Northern Peru Karen A. Alroy1,2, Christine Huang3, Robert H. Gilman2,4, Victor R. Quispe-Machaca4, Morgan A. Marks2, Jenny Ancca-Juarez4, Miranda Hillyard2, Manuela Verastegui4, Gerardo Sanchez4, Lilia Cabrera4, Elisa Vidal2, Erica M. W. Billig5, Vitaliano A. Cama6, César Náquira4, Caryn Bern7, Michael Z. Levy4,5*, Working Group on Chagas Disease in Peru4 1 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science & Technology Policy Fellow at the Division of Environmental Biology, National Science Foundation, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, 2 Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, 3 Department of Pediatrics and Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America, 4 Faculty of Science and Philosophy Alberto Cazorla OPEN ACCESS Talleri, Urbanización Ingeniería, University Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru, 5 Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Perelman School of Medicine, Citation: Alroy KA, Huang C, Gilman RH, Quispe- University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, 6 Centers for Disease Machaca VR, Marks MA, Ancca-Juarez J, et al. Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, 7 Department of Epidemiology and (2015) Prevalence and Transmission of Biostatistics, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United Trypanosoma cruzi in People of Rural Communities States of America of the High Jungle of Northern Peru. PLoS Negl Trop *
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