Congenital Chagas' Disease in hospitals of Corrientes City-Argentina;Enfermedad de Chagas congénito en Hospitales de la ciudad de Corrientes-Argentina

Enfermedades Emergentes

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 121-124

  Lucero, Raúl Horacio ^a   Brusés, Bettina L ^a   Merino, Daniel E ^a   Fernández, Gustavo J ^b   Crenna, Ernesto C ^b   Alonso, José M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL NORDESTE   (Argentina)

^b Hospital Pediátrico Juan Pablo II Prov de Corrientes

Author keywords

Congenital infection; kDNA; PCR

Indexed keywords

BENZNIDAZOLE;

ADULT; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONGENITAL INFECTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HEMAGGLUTINATION TEST; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREVALENCE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 36048988149     PISSN: 15754723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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