Experiences with Diagnosis and Treatment of Chagas Disease at a United States Teaching Hospital—Clinical Features of Patients with Positive Screening Serologic Testing

Experiences with Diagnosis and Treatment of Chagas Disease at a United States Teaching Hospital—Clinical Features of Patients with Positive Screening Serologic Testing

Chagas disease (CD) is the third most common parasitic infection globally and can cause cardiac and gastrointestinal complications. Around 300,000 carriers of CD live in the U.S., with about 3000 of those in Colorado. We described our experience in diagnosing CD at a Colorado teaching hospital to re...

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Main Authors: Peter Hyson, Lilian Vargas Barahona, Laura C. Pedraza-Arévalo, Jonathan Schultz, Luisa Mestroni, Maria da Consolação Moreira, Matthew Taylor, Carlos Franco-Paredes, Esther Benamu, Poornima Ramanan, Anis Rassi, Kellie Hawkins, Andrés F. Henao-Martínez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-05-01
Series:Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease
Subjects:
Chagas disease
trypanosomiasis
<i>Trypanosoma cruzi</i>
neglected tropical disease (NTD)
pretransplant screening
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2414-6366/6/2/93

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