Estimating the Burden of Chagas Disease in the United States

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2016, Pages

  Manne Goehler, Jennifer ^a   Umeh, Chukwuemeka A ^b   Montgomery, Susan P ^c   Wirtz, Veronika J ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; CHAGAS DISEASE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; PATHOGEN LOAD; PREVALENCE; UNITED STATES; ADULT; CALIFORNIA; COST OF ILLNESS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ETHNOLOGY; FLORIDA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MIGRANT; NEW YORK; PARASITOLOGY; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TEXAS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ADULT; BLOOD DONORS; CALIFORNIA; CHAGAS DISEASE; COST OF ILLNESS; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FLORIDA; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LATIN AMERICA; MALE; NEW YORK; PREVALENCE; TEXAS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85007370325     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005033     Document Type: Article

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