Kristy O Murray, Miguel A Saldaña, Sarah M Gunter, Russell Manzanero, Emily Zielinski-Gutierrez, Claudia Herrera, Julie M Thompson, Adrianna Maliga, Kim Bautista, Allison Lino, Ella Hawes, Shannon E Ronca, Francis Morey, Rafael Chacon Fuentes, Beatriz Lopez, Eric Dumonteil, Gerhaldine H Morazan
In January 2020, we instituted acute febrile illness surveillance in 11 hospitals and clinics across Belize. Within 3 months, we diagnosed an acute case of Chagas disease by polymerase chain reaction in a 7-year-old child in the northern part of the country. Phylogenetic analyses of the parasite from the acute blood specimen revealed a multiclonal Trypanosoma cruzi infection, including parasites from the TcII (25.0% of haplotypes), TcIV (2.5% of haplotypes), and TcV (72.5% of haplotypes) discrete typing units...
November 14, 2022: American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene