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Chagas is a global tropical parasitic disease mostly epidemic Latin America. WHO \ref{http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs340/en/} estimate more than six million infected people worldwide. Most transmissions occurs in the Americas via the \textit{Trypanosoma cruzi} parasite, vector-borne by the \textit{Triatomine} insect family. Other relevant routes of transmission include blood transfusion and congenital transmission, estimating 1300 newborns infected each year \ref{trabajos_de_}.\begin{comment} en el drive estan las ppt del min salud \end{comment}.   Enduring chronically for years in the infected individual, Chagas can go for last  years without being detected. This in turn lowers reduces  the chance of effective treatment and of the  tracking of infected individuals. The spatial dissemination of a congenitally transmitted disease offset offsets  the available measures to control risk groups, groups and slowly introduce the disease to the general population. Long-term human mobility plays a key role in this process.  In Argentina vector control campaigns have been ongoing for more than thirty years as the main epidemic counter-measure. \textit{Gran Chaco}, situated in the northern part of the country is home to most of the infected triatomines. The ecoregion's demographics demographic characteristics  are speciallyRecent national estimates still indicate that there exist at least one million people carrying the parasite with more than seven million exposed. Experts \begin{comment} aca como referencio a Diego Weinberg y Mundo Sano? \end{comment} underline the current difficulties faced by the national health systems where on average, only two thousand people are treated yearly for Chagas \begin{comment} aca nuevamente esta referencia es de MS \end{comment}.  The dynamic interaction of the triatomine infested areas and the human mobility patterns present a difficult scenario to track down individuals or spots with high prevalence of infected people or high transmission risk. Available methods of surveying the state of the Chagas disease in Argentina nowadays are limited to individual screenings of individuals. To the best of our knowledge the work described here is the first attempt to use mobile phone data to understand Chagas' epidemic spatial structure. \begin{comment} Existe una forma de decir esto de manera correcta.. o asi les parece bien? \end{comment}  Recent national estimates indicate that there exist at least one million people carrying the parasite with more than seven million exposed. Experts \begin{comment} aca como referencio a Diego Weinberg y Mundo Sano? \end{comment} underline the current difficulties faced by the national health systems where on average, only two thousand people are treated yearly for Chagas \begin{comment} aca nuevamente esta referencia es de MS \end{comment}.  There exist different approaches in the literature making use of mobile data to answer epidemiological or health questions. \begin{comment} La siguiente info la saco de aqui https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZClgYFTLCxmg7wvRXqz2V1EP7Wcg0vd2ZwEBOLW2VOk \end{comment} \ref{}  Por otra parte, existen en la literatura varios trabajos (ver por ejemplo (6,7)) que analizan Other works directly work on CDRs to characterize human mobility. Analyzing patterns of daily flow  movimientos migratorios humanos a partir de registros de telefonía celular utilizando la  geolocalización de las llamadas. Estos registros, llamados CDRs por sus siglas en inglés (Call  Detail Record), también son utilizados para inferir propiedades y características sociales de 

su edad y género, etc.  El objetivo Here we explore the use CDRs to predict population movements between the \textit{Gran Chaco} ecoregion to the rest of the country. Data is timestamped and geolocalizated by the position of the antenna used to place the call. Privacy is also ensured by identifying users by their hashed ID. \begin{comment}el tema  deeste trabajo consiste en generar una predicción para  la localización de posibles  infectados por el Trypanosoma cruzi (parásito causante del Mal de Chagas) privacidad es siempre tan importante que lo pongo aca... haria falta agregar que no tenemos acceso  a nivel nacional  basada en un gran volumen de registros las claves  de llamados celulares. Estos datos serán utilizados  para aportar información acerca de la dinámica social de la población Argentina, tanto a nivel  individual como a nivel agregado. encriptacion. \end{comment}  Public health policy and epidemiological campaigns interventions  could greatly benefit from the use of data study  of long-term national mobility patterns. Characterization of human movements to and from the ecoregion is key to the problem of targetting infected individuals at a national scale.  To the best of our knowledge, data on the subject is vastly lacking, inexistent or . Here we explore use CDRs hardly accesible  to researchers.  1