Frequency of Trypanosoma cruzi infection in patients with implanted pacemaker;Frecuencia de anticuerpos anti-Trypanosoma cruzi en pacientes portadores de marcapasos de la Clínica San Pedro Claver de Bogotá

Biomedica

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 483-489

  Mora, Guillermo ^a   Echeverry, María Clara ^a   Rey, Gustavo Enrique ^a   López, Myriam Consuelo ^a   Posada, Luisa Fernanda ^a   Rivas, Fabio Aurelio ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Artificial provalence; Bradycardla; Chagas card omyopathy; Colombia; Pacemaker; Trypanosoma cruzl

Indexed keywords

TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; BRADYCARDIA; CHAGAS DISEASE; COLOMBIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SEROLOGY; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; BRADYCARDIA; CHAGAS CARDIOMYOPATHY; COLOMBIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; SEROLOGIC TESTS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 43649095627     PISSN: 01204157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7705/biomedica.v27i4.122     Document Type: Article

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