Chagas Disease Screening in Maternal Donors of Publicly Banked Umbilical Cord Blood, United States
To assess patterns of Chagas disease, we reviewed results of screening umbilical cord blood from a US public cord blood bank during 2007–2014. Nineteen maternal donors tested positive for Trypanosoma cruzi parasites (0.04%). Because perinatal transmission of Chagas disease is associated with substan...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
2016-08-01
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| Series: | Emerging Infectious Diseases |
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| Online Access: | https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/22/8/15-1622_article |