Literature DB >> 8447115

Chagas' disease and blood transfusion: a New World problem?

S Wendel1, A L Gonzaga.   

Abstract

American trypanosomiasis (Chagas' disease) can be transmitted by blood transfusion. For almost 40 years, this transmission has been limited to Latin America, but recently, three cases have been reported in the USA and Canada. With increasing emigration to North America and Europe, Chagas' disease may be introduced to the Northern hemisphere by transfusion of blood from carriers. This review will focus on the discovery, biology and antigenic profile of Trypanosoma cruzi (the aetiological agent of Chagas' disease), including the invertebrate vectors, animal reservoirs and transmission to humans, with special reference to blood transfusion. Finally, diagnostic tests and prophylactic measures for the prevention of Chagas' disease will be discussed.

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Year:  1993        PMID： 8447115     DOI： 10.1111/j.1423-0410.1993.tb02507.x

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Vox Sang        ISSN： 0042-9007            Impact factor:   2.144


  15 in total

1.  Excretory-secretory antigens of Trypanosoma cruzi are potentially useful for serodiagnosis of chronic Chagas' disease.

Authors:  M Nakazawa; D S Rosa; V R Pereira; M O Moura; V C Furtado; W V Souza; M N Barros; F G Abath; Y M Gomes
Journal:  Clin Diagn Lab Immunol       Date:  2001-09

2.  Serologic testing for Trypanosoma cruzi: comparison of radioimmunoprecipitation assay with commercially available indirect immunofluorescence assay, indirect hemagglutination assay, and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay kits.

Authors:  D A Leiby; S Wendel; D T Takaoka; R M Fachini; L C Oliveira; M A Tibbals
Journal:  J Clin Microbiol       Date:  2000-02       Impact factor: 5.948

Review 3.  Chagas disease and transfusion medicine: a perspective from non-endemic countries.

Authors:  Andrea Angheben; Lucia Boix; Dora Buonfrate; Federico Gobbi; Zeno Bisoffi; Simonetta Pupella; Giorgio Gandini; Giuseppe Aprili
Journal:  Blood Transfus       Date:  2015-10       Impact factor: 3.443

Review 4.  Safety of the blood supply in Latin America.

Authors:  Gabriel A Schmunis; Jose R Cruz
Journal:  Clin Microbiol Rev       Date:  2005-01       Impact factor: 26.132

5.  A possible case of Chagas disease reactivation after a bone marrow transplant.

Authors:  Teresa Jimenez-Marco; Enrique Girona-Llobera; Matilde Sedeño; Cristina Riera; Roser Fisa
Journal:  Blood Transfus       Date:  2013-04-24       Impact factor: 3.443

6.  Selective Testing of At-Risk Blood Donors for Trypanosoma cruzi and Plasmodium spp. in Switzerland.

Authors:  Christoph Niederhauser; Jochen Gottschalk; Caroline Tinguely
Journal:  Transfus Med Hemother       Date:  2016-05-03       Impact factor: 3.747

7.  Evaluation of recombinant antigens for serodiagnosis of Chagas' disease in South and Central America.

Authors:  E S Umezawa; S F Bastos; M E Camargo; L M Yamauchi; M R Santos; A Gonzalez; B Zingales; M J Levin; O Sousa; R Rangel-Aldao; J F da Silveira
Journal:  J Clin Microbiol       Date:  1999-05       Impact factor: 5.948

8.  Lateral flow immunoassay for diagnosis of Trypanosoma cruzi infection with high correlation to the radioimmunoprecipitation assay.

Authors:  Raymond L Houghton; Yvonne Y Stevens; Kathryn Hjerrild; Jeff Guderian; Masahiko Okamoto; Mazbahul Kabir; Steven G Reed; David A Leiby; W John W Morrow; Myriam Lorca; Syamal Raychaudhuri
Journal:  Clin Vaccine Immunol       Date:  2009-02-11

9.  Transfusion-transmitted parasitic infections.

Authors:  Gagandeep Singh; Rakesh Sehgal
Journal:  Asian J Transfus Sci       Date:  2010-07

10.  A case of vertical transmission of Chagas disease contracted via blood transfusion in Canada.

Authors:  Margaret A Fearon; Vito Scalia; Mary Huang; Irene Dines; Momar Ndao; Philippe Lagacé-Wiens
Journal:  Can J Infect Dis Med Microbiol       Date:  2013       Impact factor: 2.471
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