An estimate of the burden of chagas disease in the United States

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Bern, Caryn ^a   Montgomery, Susan P ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONGENITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROPREVALENCE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CHAGAS CARDIOMYOPATHY; CHAGAS DISEASE; COST OF ILLNESS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; HUMANS; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70149108335     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/605091     Document Type: Article

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