Results of entomological and epidemiological investigations on the first autochthonous human case of American trypanosomiasis in the State of Acre, Brazil are presented. There are no synanthropic triatomine vectors in the area. Possibility of congenital or transfusional transmission is completely excluded. However, it is not possible to establish whether transmission was the result of house invasion of a silvatic triatomine species or contamined food. Two strains of Trypanosoma cruzi were isolated: one from humans which was called “Acre-Humana” (AH) and […]