Trypanosoma cruzi and chagas' disease in the united states

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 655-681

  Bern, Caryn ^a   Kjos, Sonia ^b   Yabsley, Michael J ^c   Montgomery, Susan P ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MARSHFIELD CLINIC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTIPARASITIC AGENT; BENZNIDAZOLE; NIFURTIMOX; ROCHAGON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ALLERGIC REACTION; AMASTIGOTE; AMPHIBIA; ANAPHYLAXIS; ANASARCA; ANEMIA; ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA; ANOREXIA; ARMADILLO; BIRD; BITE WOUND; BLOOD CULTURE; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CARNIVORA; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONJUNCTIVA; COUGHING; COYOTE; DIARRHEA; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISORIENTATION; DOG DISEASE; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG TOLERANCE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPHAGIA; DYSPNEA; ECOLOGY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIMASTIGOTE; EXFOLIATIVE DERMATITIS; EXPERIMENTAL MOUSE; EXPERIMENTAL RAT; FECES; FEVER; FOOD INTAKE; FOX; FRUIT; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GIEMSA STAIN; HABITAT; HAPLOTYPE; HEART DILATATION; HEART DISEASE; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYBRIDIZATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RATE; INSOMNIA; IRRITABILITY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MARSUPIAL; MEGACOLON; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MUCOSA; NAUSEA; NEURITIS; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; NOTE; NYMPH; ODYNOPHAGIA; OPOSSUM; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; PANSTRONGYLUS; PANSTRONGYLUS MEGISTUS; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; PARATRIATOMA HIRSUTA; PARESTHESIA; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PEROMYSCUS; PHOTOSENSITIZATION; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYNEUROPATHY; PREMATURITY; PRIMATE; RACCOON; RADIOIMMUNOPRECIPITATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REPTILE; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RHESUS MONKEY; RHODNIUS; RHODNIUS PROLIXUS; SCREENING; SEROLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; SIDE EFFECT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SQUIRREL; SWINE; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREMOR; TRIATOMA; TRIATOMA BRASILIENSIS; TRIATOMA DIMIDIATA; TRIATOMA GERSTAECKERI; TRIATOMA INCRASSATA; TRIATOMA INDICTIVA; TRIATOMA INFESTANS; TRIATOMA LECTICULARIA; TRIATOMA NEOTOMAE; TRIATOMA PROTRACTA; TRIATOMA RECURVA; TRIATOMA RUBIDA; TRIATOMA RUBROFASCIATA; TRIATOMA SANGUISUGA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPOMASTIGOTE; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; UNITED STATES; URTICARIA; VECTOR CONTROL; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; CHAGAS DISEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; ENDEMIC DISEASES; HUMANS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; UNITED STATES;

TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 80053651699     PISSN: 08938512     EISSN: 10986618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CMR.00005-11     Document Type: Note

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