Journal
JOURNAL OF THE PEDIATRIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES SOCIETY
Volume 4, Issue 1, Pages 67-70Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/jpids/pit056
Keywords
Chagas disease; congenital infection; newborn infant; Trypanosoma cruzi
Categories
Funding
- IHRC, Inc
- Novartis Vaccines Diagnostics
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Perinatal screening for Trypanosoma cruzi in a cohort of 4000 predominantly Hispanic women in southern Texas revealed that Chagas disease occurs with sufficient frequency (0.25%) that targeted perinatal screening should be considered to identify infected mothers and infants at risk for congenital infection.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available
Share Paper
