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Trypanosoma cruzi load in synanthropic rodents from rural areas in Chile

Overview of attention for article published in Parasites & Vectors, March 2018
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Title
Trypanosoma cruzi load in synanthropic rodents from rural areas in Chile
Published in
Parasites & Vectors, March 2018
DOI 10.1186/s13071-018-2771-2
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Esteban Yefi-Quinteros, Catalina Muñoz-San Martín, Antonella Bacigalupo, Juana P. Correa, Pedro E. Cattan

Abstract

Trypanosoma cruzi is the agent of Chagas disease, a major public health problem in Latin America. Many wild and domestic animals are naturally infected with T. cruzi; rodents are one of the groups which have been consistently detected infected in different countries. The aim of this work was to characterize blood T. cruzi load in naturally infected rodents from a Chagas disease endemic region in Chile. Baited traps were set in domestic and peridomestic areas of rural dwellings. The rodents were anesthetized and blood sampled; DNA was extracted and the parasite load was quantified by T. cruzi satellite DNA real-time PCR assays. Seventy-one rodents of four species, Rattus rattus, Mus musculus, Phyllotis darwini and Octodon degus, were captured; R. rattus was the most abundant species. Fifty-nine samples (83.1%) were T. cruzi-positive and the median value of the parasite load was 2.99 parasite equivalents (par-eq)/ml. The comparison of frequency of infection or parasite load by species showed no differences. However, one R. rattus presented very elevated parasitemia (1644 par-eq/ml). The overall levels of parasitemia were similar to those found in humans in Chile. The high infection levels in exotic and endemic rodents very near to rural settlements increases their relevance as T. cruzi hosts.

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Unknown 47 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 9 19%
Student > Master 5 11%
Student > Bachelor 5 11%
Professor > Associate Professor 4 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 9%
Other 11 23%
Unknown 9 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 9 19%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 7 15%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 13%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 9%
Social Sciences 2 4%
Other 5 11%
Unknown 14 30%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 07 January 2019.
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#7,399,714
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#1,646
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#121,154
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Outputs of similar age from Parasites & Vectors
#51
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