Prevalence and vertical transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi infection among pregnant latin american women attending 2 maternity clinics in barcelona, spain

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1736-1740

  Muñoz, José ^a,c   Coll, Oriol ^b   Juncosa, Teresa ^d   Vergés, Mireia ^e   Pino, Marta Del ^b   Fumado, Victoria ^d   Bosch, Jordi ^c   Posada, Elizabeth J ^a   Hernandez, Sara ^b   Fisa, Roser ^e   Boguña, Josep Maria ^d   Gállego, Montserrat ^e   Sanz, Sergi ^a   Portús, Montserrat ^e   Gascón, Joaquim ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY CREAL   (Spain)

^b Institut Clinic de Ginecologia   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL SANT JOAN DE DÉU   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNITY WARD; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCREENING; SEROPREVALENCE; SPAIN; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CHAGAS DISEASE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SPAIN; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66949170306     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/599223     Document Type: Article

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