Chagas disease in Latin American pregnant immigrants: Experience in a non-endemic country

Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics

Volumn 285, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 919-923

  Ramos, José M ^a   Milla, Alfredo ^a   Rodríguez, Juan C ^a   López Chejade, Paulo ^b   Flóres, Maria ^c   Rodríguez, José M ^a   Gutiérrez, Félix ^a,d  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO DE ELCHE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^d MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

Author keywords

American trypanosomiasis; Chagas disease; Maternal fetal transmission; Non endemic area; Trypanosoma cruzi; Vertical transmission

Indexed keywords

BENZNIDAZOLE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BOLIVIA; CHAGAS DISEASE; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; PARAGUAY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCREENING TEST; SEROPREVALENCE; TREATMENT DURATION; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; MASS SCREENING; MIGRATION; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; SPAIN; STATISTICS;

ADULT; CHAGAS DISEASE; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; LATIN AMERICA; MASS SCREENING; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SPAIN; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 84863226528     PISSN: 09320067     EISSN: 14320711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00404-011-2081-9     Document Type: Article

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