Congenital Trypanosoma cruzi infection. Efficacy of its monitoring in an urban reference health center in a non-endemic area of Argentina

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 838-845

  De Rissio, Ana María ^a   Riarte, Adelina Rosa ^a   García, Miriam Martín ^a   Esteva, Mónica Inés ^a   Ruiz, Andrés Mariano ^a   Quaglino, Marta ^b  

^a Instituto Nacional de Diagnostico e Investigacion de la Enfermedad de Chagas Dr Mario Fatala Chaben   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE ROSARIO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONGENITAL INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITEMIA; SEROLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; URBAN POPULATION; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ARGENTINA; CHAGAS DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; URBAN POPULATION;

TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 77952699591     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2010.08-0383     Document Type: Article

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