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Laboratorio Central de Referencia para Enfermedad de Chagas y Leishmaniasis, Secretaría de Salud de Honduras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Medicina (B Aires). 1999;59 Suppl 2:117-9.
Central America is composed of seven countries: Belice, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama. Chagas disease exists in all seven countries, but with major prevalence in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. The main species of triatomine vectors are: Rhodnius prolixus, Triatoma dimidiata y Rhodnius pallescens. In 1997 the Central American countries launched an Initiative for the Vectorial and Transfusion Transmission Control of Chagas disease. The objectives of the Initiative are: 1. elimination of Rhodnius prolixus, 2. control of Triatoma dimidiata and 3. serological screening for Trypanosoma cruzi of 100% of the blood donors. This Initiative is supported by the Resolution for "The Elimination of Transmission of Chagas Disease", of the World Health Assembly in 1998.
伯利兹、哥斯达黎加、萨尔瓦多、危地马拉、洪都拉斯、尼加拉瓜和巴拿马。恰加斯病在这七个国家均有存在，但在萨尔瓦多、危地马拉、洪都拉斯和尼加拉瓜更为普遍。锥蝽传播媒介的主要种类有：长红锥蝽、二斑锥蝽和苍白锥蝽。1997年，中美洲国家发起了一项关于恰加斯病病媒及输血传播控制的倡议。该倡议的目标是：1. 消灭长红锥蝽；2. 控制二斑锥蝽；3. 对100%的献血者进行克氏锥虫血清学筛查。该倡议得到了1998年世界卫生大会《消除恰加斯病传播》决议的支持。
