Hernandez Salvador, Flores Carmen A, Viana Gracia M, Sanchez Daniel R, Traina Mahmoud I, Meymandi Sheba K
Center of Excellence for Chagas Disease, Olive View-UCLA Medical Center , Sylmar, California.
Open Forum Infect Dis. 2016 Dec 20;3(4):ofw227. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofw227. eCollection 2016 Oct.
usually infects humans via triatomine insects in Latin America. Vector-borne transmission in the United States is exceedingly rare. We describe (1) the first case of probable autochthonous transmission reported in California in more than 30 years and (2) the first ever reported case in the greater Los Angeles area.
通常在拉丁美洲通过锥蝽昆虫感染人类。在美国,通过病媒传播极为罕见。我们描述了(1)30多年来在加利福尼亚州报告的首例可能的本地传播病例,以及(2)大洛杉矶地区有史以来报告的首例病例。