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| Title |
The history of Chagas disease
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Parasites & Vectors, July 2014
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| DOI | 10.1186/1756-3305-7-317 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Dietmar Steverding |
| Abstract |
The ancestor of Trypanosome cruzi was probably introduced to South American via bats approximately 7-10 million years ago. When the first humans arrived in the New World, a sylvatic cycle of Chagas disease was then already well established. Paleoparasitological data suggests that human American trypanosomiasis originated in the Andean area when people founded the first settlements in the coastal region of the Atacama Desert. Identification of T. cruzi as the etiological agent and triatome bugs as the transmission vector of Chagas disease occurred within a few years at the beginning of the 20th century. History also teaches us that human activity leading to environmental changes, in particular deforestation, is the main cause for the spread of Chagas disease. Recently, migration of T. cruzi-infected patients has led to a distribution of Chagas disease from Latin America to non-endemic countries in Europe, North America and western Pacific region. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 29 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 4 | 14% |
| Argentina | 2 | 7% |
| Mexico | 2 | 7% |
| United States | 2 | 7% |
| Spain | 1 | 3% |
| Canada | 1 | 3% |
| Brazil | 1 | 3% |
| Colombia | 1 | 3% |
| Peru | 1 | 3% |
| Other | 2 | 7% |
| Unknown | 12 | 41% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 19 | 66% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 4 | 14% |
| Scientists | 3 | 10% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 3 | 10% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 464 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Argentina | 3 | <1% |
| Mexico | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 459 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 77 | 17% |
| Student > Bachelor | 77 | 17% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 52 | 11% |
| Researcher | 41 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 39 | 8% |
| Other | 63 | 14% |
| Unknown | 115 | 25% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 107 | 23% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 70 | 15% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 43 | 9% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 29 | 6% |
| Chemistry | 24 | 5% |
| Other | 58 | 13% |
| Unknown | 133 | 29% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 54. 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 08 April 2024.
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#798,431
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#84
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#7,478
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#4
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