Improving access to Chagas disease diagnosis and etiologic treatment in remote rural communities of the Argentine Chaco through strengthened primary health care and broad social participation

Paula Sartor; Ivana Colaianni; M. Victoria Cardinal; Jacqueline Bua; Héctor Freilij; Ricardo E. Gürtler

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0005336

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Improving access to Chagas disease diagnosis and etiologic treatment in remote rural communities of the Argentine Chaco through strengthened primary health care and broad social participation

Paula Sartor,

Affiliations Universidad de Buenos Aires, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Instituto de Ecología, Genética y Evolución de Buenos Aires (IEGEBA), Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Dirección de Epidemiología, Ministerio de Salud de la Provincia del Chaco, Chaco, Argentina, Programa Nacional de Chagas, Ministerio de Salud de la Nación, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Ivana Colaianni,

Affiliations Universidad de Buenos Aires, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Instituto de Ecología, Genética y Evolución de Buenos Aires (IEGEBA), Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Hospital Santojanni, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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M. Victoria Cardinal,

Affiliation Universidad de Buenos Aires, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Instituto de Ecología, Genética y Evolución de Buenos Aires (IEGEBA), Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Jacqueline Bua,

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Parasitología "Dr. M. Fatala Chaben", ANLIS C.G. Malbrán, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Héctor Freilij,

Affiliation Programa Nacional de Chagas, Ministerio de Salud de la Nación, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Ricardo E. Gürtler

* E-mail: gurtler@ege.fcen.uba.ar

Affiliation Universidad de Buenos Aires, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Instituto de Ecología, Genética y Evolución de Buenos Aires (IEGEBA), Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Improving access to Chagas disease diagnosis and etiologic treatment in remote rural communities of the Argentine Chaco through strengthened primary health care and broad social participation

Paula Sartor,
Ivana Colaianni,
M. Victoria Cardinal,
Jacqueline Bua,
Héctor Freilij,
Ricardo E. Gürtler

Published: February 13, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0005336

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