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Chagas Disease: Implementation of Screening to Benefit Mother and Infant.

Morven S Edwards1, Susan P Montgomery2.   

Abstract

Pregnancy-based screening would identify women with Chagas disease, allowing for treatment of Trypanosoma cruzi-infected women and infants to prevent potentially fatal Chagas cardiomyopathy.
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Keywords:  Cardiomyopathy; Chagas disease; Congenital infection; Serologic screening; Trypanosoma cruzi

Year:  2021        PMID： 34030817     DOI： 10.1016/j.clp.2021.03.013

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Clin Perinatol        ISSN： 0095-5108            Impact factor:   3.430


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Review 1.  Worldwide Control and Management of Chagas Disease in a New Era of Globalization: a Close Look at Congenital Trypanosoma cruzi Infection.

Authors:  Carmen Muñoz; Montserrat Gállego; Alba Abras; Cristina Ballart; Anna Fernández-Arévalo; María-Jesús Pinazo; Joaquim Gascón
Journal:  Clin Microbiol Rev       Date:  2022-03-03       Impact factor: 50.129

Review 2.  Screening for Chagas Disease during Pregnancy in the United States-A Literature Review.

Authors:  Elizabeth G Livingston; Ryan Duggal; Sarah Dotters-Katz
Journal:  Trop Med Infect Dis       Date:  2021-11-26
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