Perinatal screening for chagas disease in southern Texas

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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.

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Edwards, M. S., Rench, M. A., Todd, C. W., Czaicki, N., Steurer, F. J., Bern, C., & Montgomery, S. P. (2015). Perinatal screening for chagas disease in southern Texas. Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, 4(1), 67–70. https://doi.org/10.1093/jpids/pit056

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