Prenatal diagnosis of congenital Chagas' disease (American trypanosomiasis)

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 179-181

  Okumura, Maria ^a   Dos Santos, Vera Aparecida ^a   Camargo, Mário E ^a   Schultz, Regina ^a   Zugaib, Marcelo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Chagas' disease; Congenital transmission; Fetal hydrops; Prenatal diagnosis; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CHAGAS DISEASE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONGENITAL INFECTION; CORDOCENTESIS; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEATH; FETUS HYDROPS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPOMASTIGOTE;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BRAZIL; CHAGAS DISEASE; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; HYDROPS FETALIS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

HYDROPS; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 1842585847     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.813     Document Type: Article

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