Prevalence of Chagas disease in blood donors at the Uberaba Regional Blood Center, Brazil, from 1995 to 2009

INTRODUCTION: A retrospective study was conducted to assess the occurrence of blood donations that were ineligible due to Chagas disease infection from 1995 to 2009 at the Uberaba Regional Blood Center (HRU), Brazil, verify the tendency of this ineligibility, and describe the epidemiologic profile o...

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Main Authors: Laryssa Manso de Lima, Nathália Passos Alves, Valdirene de Fátima Barbosa, Gustavo Alves Pimenta, Helio Moraes-Souza, Paulo Roberto Juliano Martins
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) 2012-12-01
Series:Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0037-86822012000600013&lng=en&tlng=en