Congenital Trypanosoma cruzi Transmission in Santa Cruz, Bolivia

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1667-1674

  Bern, Caryn ^a   Verastegui, Manuela ^e   Gilman, Robert H ^b,e   LaFuente, Carlos ^g   Galdos Cardenas, Gerson ^b   Calderon, Maritza ^e   Pacori, Juan ^e   Del Carmen Abastoflor, Maria ^g   Aparicio, Hugo ^f   Brady, Mark F ^f   Ferrufino, Lisbeth ^g   Angulo, Noelia ^e   Marcus, Sarah ^e   Sterling, Charles ^c   Maguire, James H ^d  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSIDAD PERUANA CAYETANO HEREDIA   (Peru)

^f ASOCIACIÓN BENÉFICA PRISMA   (Peru)

^g Hospital Universitario Japonés   (Bolivia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; PROTOZOAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BOLIVIA; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONGENITAL INFECTION; DELIVERY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KINETOPLAST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROSCOPY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PARASITE EXAMINATION; PARASITEMIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BOLIVIA; CHAGAS DISEASE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 72849147217     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/648070     Document Type: Article

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