High prevalence of congenital Trypanosoma cruzi infection and family clustering in Salta, Argentina

Pediatrics

Volumn 115, Issue 6, 2005, Pages

  Negrette, Olga Sánchez ^a   Mora, María Celia ^a   Basombrío, Miguel Ángel ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SALTA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Chagas' disease; Congenital infection; Family clustering; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

AGGLUTINATION TEST; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FAMILY; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NEWBORN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RISK FACTOR; SEROLOGY; SIBLING; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; ADULT; ANIMAL; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH; HEMAGGLUTINATION TEST; IMMUNOLOGY; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MASS SCREENING; PARASITOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREMATURITY; STATISTICS;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHAGAS DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEMAGGLUTINATION TESTS; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; MASS SCREENING; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SIBLINGS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 27744577051     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 00314005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2004-1732     Document Type: Article

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