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Congenital Chagas’ disease transmission in the United States: Diagnosis in adulthood

Two brothers with congenitally-acquired Chagas’ disease (CD) diagnosed during adulthood are reported. The patients were born in the USA to a mother from Bolivia who on subsequent assessment was found to be serologically positive for Trypanosoma cruzi. Serologic screening of all pregnant women who mi...

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Autores principales: Murillo, Jorge, Bofill, Lina M., Bolivar, Hector, Torres-Viera, Carlos, Urbina, Julio A., Benhayon, Daniel, Torres, Jaime R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4978216/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27516969
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2016.07.011