Mother-to-Child transmission of congenital chagas disease, Japan

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 146-148

  Imai, Kazuo ^a   Maeda, Takuya ^a   Sayama, Yusuke ^b   Mikita, Kei ^a   Fujikura, Yuji ^a   Misawa, Kazuhisa ^a   Nagumo, Morichika ^a   Iwata, Osamu ^c   Ono, Takeshi ^a   Kurane, Ichiro ^d   Miyahira, Yasushi ^a   Kawana, Akihiko ^a   Miura, Sachio ^b  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b SUWA RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c TOKAI UNIVERSITY OISO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZNIDAZOLE;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONGENITAL TRANSMISSION; CONSTIPATION; ELISA KIT; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; PARASITE SERODIAGNOSIS; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHOOL CHILD; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

BENZNIDAZOLE; CONGENITAL CHAGAS DISEASE; JAPAN; MEGACOLON; MOTHER-TO-CHILD TRANSMISSION; PARASITES; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ADOLESCENT; CHAGAS DISEASE; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; JAPAN; MALE; NEGLECTED DISEASES; NITROIMIDAZOLES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRYPANOCIDAL AGENTS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 84890917754     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2001.131071     Document Type: Article

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