Evidence of likely autochthonous Chagas disease in the southwestern United States: A case series of Trypanosoma cruzi seropositive blood donors

BACKGROUND: Chagas disease is a parasitic infection that can insidiously cause non‐ischemic cardiomyopathy. Given the largely silent nature of this progressive disease, asymptomatic blood donors pose potential blood transfusion risk. Blood donation screening has become an unintentional form of Chaga...

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Autores principales: Lynn, Mary K., Dye‐Braumuller, Kyndall C., Beatty, Norman L., Dorn, Patricia L., Klotz, Stephen A., Stramer, Susan L., Townsend, Rebecca L., Kamel, Hany, Vannoy, Jacquelyn M., Sadler, Patrick, Montgomery, Susan P., Rivera, Hilda N., Nolan, Melissa S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2022
Materias:
Donor Infectious Disease Testing
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9543114/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35895440
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/trf.17026

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