Mother-child transmission of Chagas disease: Could coinfection with human immunodeficiency virus increase the risk?

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 107-109

  Scapellato, Pablo Gustavo ^a,b   Bottaro, Edgardo Gabriel ^a   Rodríguez Brieschke, María Teresa ^a  

^a Hospital Donación F Santojanni   (Argentina)

^b NONE   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Chagas disease; Congenital infection; Human immunodeficiency virus; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD EXAMINATION; CHAGAS DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT; MIXED INFECTION; NEWBORN; PARASITEMIA; SEROLOGY; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; CHAGAS DISEASE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; LATEX FIXATION TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 65949117221     PISSN: 00378682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0037-86822009000200002     Document Type: Article

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