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Morven S Edwards1, Marcia A Rench1, Charles W Todd2
1Section of Infectious Disease, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.
Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society
|September 26, 2015
Abstract
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Perinatal screening for Trypanosoma cruzi in a cohort of 4000 predominantly Hispanic women in southern Texas revealed that Chagas disease occurs with sufficient frequency (0.25%) that targeted perinatal screening should be considered to identify infected mothers and infants at risk for congenital infection.
