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Acute Chagas' disease in a recipient of a bone marrow transplant in Spain: case report
R Villalba1, G Fornés, M A Alvarez
1Department of Hematology, University Hospital Reina Sofia, Cordoba, Spain.
Abstract:
Chagas' disease (American trypanosomiasis) is a very uncommon disease in non-endemic areas. A few cases in immunosuppressed patients have been reported in America. This report describes, to our knowledge, the first fatal case of acute Chagas' disease in Europe following bone marrow transplantation.