Molecular diagnosis and treatment monitoring of congenital transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi to twins of a triplet delivery

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 58-61

  Burgos, Juan M ^a   Altcheh, Jaime ^b   Petrucelli, Noemi ^c   Bisio, Margarita ^a   Levin, Mariano J ^a   Freilij, Hector ^b   Schijman, Alejandro G ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN INGENIERÍA GENÉTICA Y BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR   (Argentina)

^b HOSPITAL DE NIÑOS RICARDO GUTIÉRREZ   (Argentina)

^c Servicio de Maternidad   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Congenital Chagas disease; Minicircle signatures; PCR diagnosis; Placenta; Triplets; Trypanosoma cruzi lineage

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE PLACENTA ISOENZYME; BENZNIDAZOLE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; CHAGAS DISEASE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEMAGGLUTINATION TEST; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; HUMAN TRIPLETS; NEWBORN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TWINS;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; CHAGAS DISEASE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROIMIDAZOLES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRIPLETS; TRYPANOCIDAL AGENTS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 68249122833     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2009.04.010     Document Type: Article

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