Transfusional chagas disease: Parasitological and serological monitoring of an infected recipient and blood donor

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Flores Chávez, María ^a   Fernández, Begoña ^b   Puente, Sabino ^c   Torres, Pilar ^b   Rodríguez, Mercedes ^a   Monedero, Carolina ^a   Cruz, Israel ^a   Gárate, Teresa ^a   Cañavate, Carmen ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^b Centro de Transfusión de la Comunidad de Madrid ^*  (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA PAZ   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITRYPANOSOMAL AGENT; BENZNIDAZOLE; DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IMMUNOLOGICAL MONITORING; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LABORATORY TEST; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEROLOGY; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; ANIMAL; BLOOD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FATALITY; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; SPAIN;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BLOOD DONORS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHAGAS DISEASE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPAIN; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 39749165701     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/527448     Document Type: Article

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