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Short-course Benznidazole treatment to reduce Trypanosoma cruzi parasitic load in women of reproductive age (BETTY): a non-inferiority randomized controlled trial study protocol

BACKGROUND: Retrospective observational studies suggest that transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi does not occur in treated women when pregnant later in life. The level of parasitemia is a known risk factor for congenital transmission. Benznidazole (BZN) is the drug of choice for preconceptional treatm...

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Autores principales: Cafferata, María L., Toscani, María A., Althabe, Fernando, Belizán, Jose M., Bergel, Eduardo, Berrueta, Mabel, Capparelli, Edmund V., Ciganda, Álvaro, Danesi, Emmaria, Dumonteil, Eric, Gibbons, Luz, Gulayin, Pablo E., Herrera, Claudia, Momper, Jeremiah D., Rossi, Steven, Shaffer, Jeffrey G., Schijman, Alejandro G., Sosa-Estani, Sergio, Stella, Candela B., Klein, Karen, Buekens, Pierre
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7446054/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32831069
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12978-020-00972-1