Revista Da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical 36(3): 401-407
2003
ISSN/ISBN: 0037-8682
PMID: 12908042
Two fatal cases of human chronic chagasic cardiomyopathy are reported, for the first time, in autochthonous patients from Rio Negro, Amazonas, Brazil. Both cases (a 45-year-old man and a 44-year-old woman), who were born and lived their whole lives in the Rio Negro region, reported being bitten several times by triatomine bugs in their camping huts while gathering piacava fibres.