Congenital Chagas disease: Time to screen pregnant women?

Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1279-1282

  Sesti Costa, Renata ^a   Silva, João s ^a   Gutierrez, Fredy rs ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Chagas disease; parasite burden; quantitative PCR; Trypanosoma cruzi; vertical transmission

Indexed keywords

EID: 85017009735     PISSN: 14787210     EISSN: 17448336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/eri.12.122     Document Type: Article

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