Congenital transmission of chagas disease in Latin American immigrants in Switzerland

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 601-603

  Jackson, Yves ^a   Myers, Catherine ^a   Diana, Alessandro ^a   Marti, Hans Peter ^b   Wolff, Hans ^a   Chappuis, François ^a   Loutan, Louis ^a,b   Gervaix, Alain ^a,b  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NIFURTIMOX;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD TESTIS BARRIER; CASE REPORT; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; CONGENITAL INFECTION; CONGENITAL TOXOPLASMOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISSEMINATED CHORIOAMNIONITIS; DRUG EFFICACY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART DISEASE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; NEWBORN; PARASITEMIA; PLACENTA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL CARE; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEROLOGY; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; SWITZERLAND; TREATMENT DURATION; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

EID: 65349154666     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/1504.080438     Document Type: Article

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